Private honours and artist's signature
created: Transcription from stone (CDL + Rosamilia).
source date: Between ca. 246 and 235 BC (Rosamilia)
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], p. 329, n. 10, whence [...], 9.125; [...], n. 8, whence [...], 64.2012; [...] 021000; [...], p. 105 (prosopography), pp. 368-369, number 94 (text).

Cf. [...], p. 68, n. 1; [...], pp. 187-188, with ph., whence [...], 42.1664; [...], p. 21.

[...] [...] [...]

Ἄριστις Θευδώρω ἱαριτεύων

[...] Θευδώρω ἀνέθηκε.

Ἀγάθων Ἀγαθοκλεῦς ἐπόησεν.

Θευδώρω[^a1]

[^a1: Θευδώρω | Ὥρῳ]

i. Un tel fils d'Un tel [...],

Aristis fils de Theudôros, prêtre.

Un tel fils de Theudôros a consacré le monument.

ii. Oeuvre d'Agathôn fils d'Agathoklès.

i. So-and-so son of So-and-so [...],

Aristis son of Theudoros, priest.

So-and-so son of Theudoros dedicated the monument.

ii. Made by Agathon son ofAgathocles.

i. Il tale figlio del tale [...],

Aristis figlio di Theudoros, sacerdote.

Il tale figlio di Theudoros dedicò il monumento.

ii. Opera di Agathon figlio diAgathokles.

This inscription has been originally considered a dedication to the god Horus, with a dative ending without iota that was inconsistent with the chronology. Rosamilia's interpretation is much more convincing. The layout with the names of the persons portrayed above at the nominative case and below a full sentence giving the name of the person among them who was responsible for the dedication has an exact parallel in IGCyr097900. At line 2 of the lost column a, there should have been an indication about an office held by the other dedicant.

Although both name and father's name of the priest who made the present dedication are frequently used in Cyrenaica, the very similar script of IGCyr101500 allows to infer that the latter might be a dedication by the son of the priest; if of the same family, the Aristis son of Theudoros who subscribed about 280 BC (IGCyr065210, col. a, l. 147) might be the priest's grandfather (so [...], who amended the higher date suggested in [...]).

For the artist's signature, Oliverio's restoration seems good, for Ἀγαθοκλῆς is rather common in Cyrenaica and gives echoing names for father and son. [...], p. 68, n. 1 had checked the extent of the gap and C. Dobias-Lalou ([...]) added that theta is the only possible letter before the incomplete omicron. Chamoux and Rosamilia think that Agathon was a Cyrenaean. See discussion at [...], n. 8.