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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Apollo

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1193002
Trismegistos ID: 738742

Source description

Support: Four non-adjacent fragments of a white marble circular basin, (fragment a: w: 0.21 × h: 0.12; fragment b: w: 0.05 × h: 0.09; fragment c: w: 0.10 × h: 0.04; fragment d: w: 0.09 × h: 0.08).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim (wide 0.035).

Letters: 0.027; without serifs; broadly open alpha, still lighlty dissymmetrical nu, slightly smaller omicron.

Date: Probably first half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1979 at Cyrene: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 95+101+107+224. Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not published before IGCyr 119300 .

Text

Interpretive

a
[--- Ἀ]πόλλ̣[ων ---]
b
[---]Ν[---]
c
[---]ΚΑ[---]
d
[---]Ι[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---.]ΠΟΛ.[..---]
b
[---]Ν[---]
c
[---]ΚΑ[---]
d
[---]Ι[---]

French translation

[---] de/à Apollon [---].

English translation

[---] of/to Apollo [---].

Italian translation

[---] di/ad Apollo [---].

Commentary

At fragment a, the name of the god is certain, but it cannot be decided whether it was here at the genitive or at the dative case.

Fragment c might contain δεκάτα but this cannot be pushed forward.

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