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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Tithe and artist's signature

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0190002
Trismegistos ID: 738234

Source description

Support: Five adjacent fragments of a reconstituted white marble base with mouldings of eggs and darts on upper and lower rims, later reused upside down and hollowed for a basin; broken off at left and in the middle (preserved overall dimensions w: 0.49 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.58).

Layout: Inscribed on front between the mouldings (w: 0.42 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.505).

Letters: 0.035 at ll. 1-2; 0.025 at l. 3.

Date: First half of fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1925 at Cyrene: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Apollo, cella in its 1st phase.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 626. Seen in 2001 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio 1927, pp. 156-157 (ph.); Ferri 1932, p. 274; Oliverio 1933, pp. 113-115 (ph.), whence SEG, 9.100; IGCyr 019000 . Cf. Rosamilia 2014, n. 1, whence SEG, 64.2012.

Text

Interpretive

[c. 4 Ε]ὐαγγελίδα
[Ἀπό]λλω[νι] δεκάταν.
[c. 6]Η+[c. 4 - 5]ς : ἠργάσσατο.

Diplomatic

[++++.]ΥΑΓΓΕΛΙΔΑ
[...]ΛΛΩ[..]ΔΕΚΑΤΑΝ
[++++++]Η+[c. 4 - 5]Σ : ΗΡΓΑΣΣΑΤΟ

Apparatus

1: [Ε]ὐαγγελίδα Oliverio 1927: [ἐπ᾿ Ἐ]υαγγελίδα Oliverio 1933

3: [c. 6]Η+ [c. 4 - 5]ς: [Δ]ημ̣[ήτριο]ς Oliverio 1927; [Λ]ήμ[νιο]ς Ferri 1932; [Τ]ηλ[οκλῆ]ς Oliverio 1933

French translation

[Un tel fils]d'Euangelidas (scil. a consacré) à Apollon comme dîme. [Un tel] a exécuté.

English translation

[So and so son] of Euangelidas (scil. dedicated) to Apollo as a tithe. Made by [so and so].

Italian translation

[Il tale figlio] di Euangelidas (scil. ha dedicato) ad Apollo come decima. [Il tale] fece.

Commentary

Oliverio dated the lettering in the fifth century, which seems too high.

As only eta and an ambiguous letter (lambda or mu) are preserved at left of l. 3, it seems wise to restrain from restoring the sculptor's name, a fortiori to guess that it might be the Lemnian Alcamenes (a guess of Ferri 1932, rejected by all commentators).

Rosamilia 2014, having not found the stone, cautiously expressed some doubts about the readings.

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