Dedication to Zeus
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Probably third quarter of fourth century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], pp. 84-86, n. 1, fig. 1, whence [...], 17.796; [...], 1953.251; Morelli, [...], 244 (only fragment b, as unpublished); [...] 062100; [...], pp. 377-378, number 104 (text). Cf. [...], whence [...], 36.1461.

Ζηνὶ Λυκαίωι [...] [...] κατέσκαψαν [...]ν ἐπέθηκαν [...] καὶ τοὶ ναποῖαι ἐποίησαν τὸ [...] ᾿Επὶ Θράσωνος Δάμων Ἐπιγένευς τῶ Στρατομάχω . Ἰάσων Ἀγχιστράτω Κάλλιππος Λαγόρα [...]

Ζηνὶ Λυκαίωι[^a1] κατέσκαψαν [...]ν[^a2] ἐπέθηκαν[^1][^a3] ναποῖαι[^a4] ἐποίησαν τὸ[^a5] [...][^a6] ᾿Επὶ Θράσωνος[^a7] τῶΣτρατομάχω[^a8] Κάλλιππος Λαγόρα[^a9]

[^a1: Ζηνὶ Λυκαίωι | [...]υω[...] | Διὶ Ὀλυμπίωι]

[^a2: κατέσκαψαν [...]ν | ατ[...]σκα [...]ν]

[^a3: ἐπέθηκαν | ἐνέθηκαν | ε ἀνέθηκαν]

[^a4: ναποῖαι | τοὶ νακόροι | τοινα [...]]

[^a5: ἐποίησαν τὸ | ἐποιήσαντο]

[^a6: [...] | om.]

[^a7: ᾿Επὶ Θράσωνος | ᾿Επὶ [...]οια[...]ωνος | [...]οια[...]ωνος]

[^a8: τῶΣτρατομάχω | ᾿Επὶ [...]τρατομάχω | Στρατομάχω]

[^a9: Κάλλιππος Λαγόρα | Κάλλις Καρταγόρα | Κάλλις Ἀρισταγόρα | [...]ταγόρα | Κάλλις Ἀρισταγόρα ()]

[^1: more consistent with the stone]

A Zeus Lykaios les [...] ont fait creuser et ont placé au-dessus [...] et les néopes ont mis à exécution le [...]. Sous Thrasôn, Damôn fils d'Epigénès fils de Stratomakhos, Iasôn fils d'Ankhistratos, Kallippos fils de Lagoras, [...].

To Zeus Lykaios the [...] dug and set upon [...] and the neopoiai made the [...]. Under Thrason, Damon son of Epigenes son of Stratomachos, Iason son of Anchistratos, Kallippos son of Lagoras, [...].

A Zeus Lykaios i [...] scavarono e vi collocarono [...] e i neopoiai fecero il [...]. Sotto Thrason, Damon figlio di Epigenes figlio di Stratomachos, Iason figlio di Anchistratos, Kallippos figlio di Lagoras,, [...].

Our fragment b bears the same inventory number as IGCyr122800. This should be a mistake. The stone was already recomposed from several fragments when published. Due to several movings of the stones from one storeroom to the other, the fragments were dissociated and one was renumbered.

The lettering strikingly resembles that of IGCyr084000, whence the date proposed here; Pesce said third or second century, which seems too low. [...] dates the inscription between 300 and 250 BC without details.

Pesce proposed to restore the name of Zeus Olympios, an epithet known in the same temple only in the second century AD (IRCyr2020 C.422); the epithet Lykaios, mentioned by Herodotus (4.203) about this very place, would fit the lacuna and seems more probable for that time, but remains hypothetical.

This inscription seems to be a dedication mentioning some building works made under the responsabillity of some men while on office, either ναποῖαι, as proposed by Rosamilia on behalf of numerous occurrences at Cos, or νακόροι, an older suggestion by Robert for ll. 4-5.

The plausibly restored preposition ἐπί at line 7 may introduce either the name of the eponymous priest (so Pesce, contra Rosamilia, who does not register him in his list) or the priest of Zeus, if yearly, or the chief of the board of officers. Pesce's very general commentary of lines 6-10 did not solve all obscurities. In his view the names at the nominative were those of benefactors who paid for the works.

One further problem arises with the name Stratomachos at line 8, which fills the line. Hence the idea that it was a grand-father's name (so [...], pp. 409, 500); [...] follows this track and admits that the necessary article was omitted by the stonecutter. Pesce restored a second preposition at line 8 and thought that two eponymous priests were mentioned, the first one followed by one benefactor's full name, the second one by at least two of them.

A new examination of the squeeze shows faint traces of a lambda as first letter of line 11 on fragment b, hence a father's name Λαγόρας, already attested for a subscriber at IGCyr065210 ii.26, son of a Mnasias. This name is also known for a man from Euesperides in an account of the fourth century BC at Delphi (CID II.26, line 6). With this rather short father's name, the preceding name has lost 6 characters. The most obvious restoration is the very common Κάλλιππος, although Καλλιάδας would also be possible.

Pesce thought that the two figures on the relief, the male one seated, the feminine one standing, might be Zeus and Hera. The latter was indeed worshipped later in Zeus' temple. It should just be stressed that there is no room at line 1 for a second divine name and the preserved ending pertains to a masculine epithet, so that the dedication should be intended for Zeus only.