Dedication, possibly to Hestia
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], XII.85, whence [...], 65 (fig. 58); [...] 096600.

Αἰσχύλος [...] ἱαροθυτ[...] [...] Ὶστίαι ἀνέθηκε τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα.

Αἰσχύλος[^a1] ἱαροθυτ[...][^a2] Ὶστίαι ἀνέθηκε[^1][^a3] Ἀπόλλωνα[^a4]

[^a1: Αἰσχύλος | Αἰσχ[...]]

[^a2: ἱαροθυτ[...] | ἱαροθυτ]

[^a3: Ὶστίαι ἀνέθηκε | Ἰστιαι[...]]

[^a4: Ἀπόλλωνα | Ἀπολλων]

[^1: or Ἱστιαῖος [...] ?]

Aiskhylos en tant que hiarothyte a consacré à Histia l'image d' Apollon.

Aischylos acting as a hiarothytas dedicated to Histia the image of Apollo.

Aischylos quando era hiarothytas ha dedicato a Histia l'immagine di Apollo.

Pugliese Carratelli published the inscription from Oliverio's papers after having observed it himself. He supposed the stone to have been cut off above, which C. Dobias-Lalou does not confirm.

At line 2, we probably have a form related to the religious office of ἱαροθύτας. Up to now, only the noun of action ἱαροθυσία is attested at Cyrene. On behalf of other dedications made by men acting as officers, the present or aorist participle of ἱαροθυτέω would be plausible.

Lines 3 and 4 are too incomplete to allow a clear interpretation of the whole. Four possibilities may be foreseen: 1) a dedication made by Aischylos to the goddess Histia of an image of Apollo; 2) a dedication to the same goddess of the statue of a man whose name includes Apollo as first stem; or 3) of the statue of a man with a short name cut at line 3 and a father's name beginning with Apoll-; 4) a second dedicant named Histiaios with a short father's name dedicating jointly with Aischylos an image of Apollo.

In support of hypothesis 1 is a series of dedication to Demeter of images of other gods (IRCyr2020 C.497, IRCyr2020 C.498, IRCyr2020 C.456). However, ΑΠΟΛ is cut in a rasura, which is puzzling for the main topic of the inscription. The same objection may be presented against hypothesis 4. Having to correct an error would be more natural if it was a personal name, which would fit hypothesis 3. On the other hand, the article at line 4, which is not common before the first name, seems to depreciate hypothesis 2. All things considered, we choose to translate hypothesis 1, which however should remain uncertain.