Dedication to Apollo
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: First half of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Fragment d: [...], p. 205, n. 27, fig. 62, whence [...], 9.323; the other fragments were not published before [...] 030700, whence [...] 67.1491.

Μνάσαρχος Καρτισθένευς Ἀπόλλωνι ἀνέθηκε.

[...]χος [...]νευς

Mnasarkhos fils de Kartisthenès a consacré à Apollon.

Mnasarchos son of Kartisthenes dedicated to Apollo.

Mnasarchos figlio di Kartisthenes ha dedicato ad Apollo.

Although both names are not rare in Cyrenaica, this man might be akin to the homonymous thearodokos of the Delphians mentioned in the great list [...], IV.16 and registered in [...] 14980. This list is now dated from the third century BC (J. Oulhen, unpublished thesis of 1992).

The lettering of this inscription is very similar to that of IGCyr063900 and IGCyr063100, thus placing our inscription at a date not too late in the third century. Therefore, it is tempting to assume that Mnasarchos was either the thearodokos himself or his grandfather.

Oliverio gave no date for the lettering; the indication 'first century AD' given in SEG is not sustainable.