EpiDoc XML:
IGCyr1287002
Trismegistos ID:
738834
Source description
Support: Part of a rectangular white marble block or panel, broken off at left and right and perhaps also at back, coloured in red in modern times (w: 0.08 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.04).
Layout: Inscribed on the face in three lines.
Letters: 0.023 carefully and deeply cut without serifs; alpha with low bar, dotted theta, slanting sigma.
Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).
Findspot: Found before 1976 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.
Place of origin: Findspot.
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 334. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and again in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.
Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Not published before IGCyr 128700 ➚.
Text
Apparatus
1: [---]ος: [---] [---]ος or
2: [---]άτω: [---] [---]άτω or
3: [ἀνέ]θηκ[ε]: [Ἀπόλλωνι ἀνέ]θηκ[ε] or
French translation
[---]os fils de [---]atos a consacré.
(ou) (scil. La statue d')[Untel fils de ---] a été consacrée par [Untel] fils de [---]atos [à Apollon].
English translation
[---]os son of [---]atos dedicated.
(or) (scil. The statue of)[So-and-so son of ---] was dedicated by [So-and-so] son of [---]atos [to Apollo].
Italian translation
[---]os figlio di [---]atos ha dedicato.
(o) (scil. La statua )[del tale figlio di ---] è stata dedicata dal [tale] figlio di [---]atos [ad Apollo].
Commentary
Although the right edge is missing, there seems to be space after the letters legible at the end of ll. 1 and 2, so that the stone may have originally ended after the missing epsilon of line 3. If so, as the ending -ος may be either a nominative or a genitive, depending on the inflexion type, two possibilities remain: either a man's name at line 1 and his father's name at line 2, giving the minimal formula 'So-and-so son of So-and-so dedicated'. Alternatively, we would have at line 1 a name at the accusative with the related father's name, at line 2 another name at the nominative followed by the father's name and at l. 3 the name of the deity, presumably Apollo; it would be the dedication of an image of the first mentioned by the second mentioned person.
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