Tithe of Aiglanor for Apollo
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Perhaps sixth century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 156, whence [...], 9.78; [...] 049 [...], p. 379, number 105 (text).

Cf. [...], pp. 320-324, whence [...], 20.722; [...], n. 20; [...], pp. 496-500, whence [...], 41.1697; [...], pp. 207-208, whence [...] 68.1745; [...], p. 248, whence [...] 68.1746.

Αἰγλάνōρ μ’ ἀνέθε̄κε hὀντιπάτρō δεκάταν.

Αἰγλάνōρ[^a1]

[^a1: Αἰγλάνōρ | Αἰγλάνōρ [Hondius from photograph, Oliverio having provided no reading, but only photograph and translation.]]

Aiglanor, le fils d'Antipatros, m'a consacré comme dîme.

Aiglanor, the son of Antipatros, dedicated me as a tithe.

Aiglanor, il figlio di Antipatros, mi ha dedicato come decima.

When found, the stele had still red and blue paint, now disappeared. Oliverio did not comment on the sculpted feature of the face. It has been interpreted as two slightly open doors like on stelae from Asia Minor said 'with false doors'.

Alice Bencivenni's additional commentary: On January 16th, 2009, at the Seminario Avanzato di Epigrafia Greca (Bologna), L. Gasperini delivered a paper entitled 'Per una rilettura integrale del donario cireneo S.E.G. IX 78', which has remained hitherto unpublished. Taking into account the inscription as a whole, he convincingly argued that the the v-shaped feature on the face was the recess into which a metal ὀβελός now lost was originally fixed. The tithe mentioned in the text would consist of this object and the idea of 'slightly open doors' should be dropped.

Metrical analysis. Although written on the stone, the final vowel of the verb at end of line 1 should be elided, so that the sentence fits exactly a pentameter. Marengo suggested a different analysis: preserving the hiatus, she proposed a feminine hemiepes, followed by a hemiepes. However, this view, relying on the inscription being cut on two lines, does not seem relevant in terms of phonetic use, even if isolated pentameters are rather rare. The verse-inscription enhances the high quality of the offering.