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Tithe

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1078002
Trismegistos ID: 738608

Source description

Support: Fragmentary foot of a cup of Attic black-glazed ware (h: 0.014 × d: 0.009; diameter c. 0.08).

Layout: Scratched under foot.

Letters: 0.005.

Date: Probably first half of fifth century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1987 at Cyrene: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen in 1987 by J.-J. Maffre in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Maffre 2007, p. 179, n. 46 (ph.), whence SEG, 57.2002, 11; IGCyr 107800 .

Text

Interpretive

[Ἀπόλλō]νι δε[κάταν]

Diplomatic

[......]ΝΙΔΕ[.....]

Apparatus

1: δε[κάταν]: δε[κάτα] Maffre 2007

French translation

Dîme (scil. consacrée à) Apollon.

English translation

Tithe (scil. dedicated to) Apollo.

Italian translation

Decima (scil. dedicata ad) Apollo.

Commentary

With the dative case of the god's name the word δεκάτα is usually at the accusative, see commentary at IGCyr1069502.

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