Dedication
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...], VI.71, whence [...], 128; erroneously republished by [...], pp. 139-40 n. 1a, whence [...], 1999.625 and [...], 48.2063; [...] 098100.

Cf. [...], p. 105 (prosopography, date).

[...]ος Κομάτα ἱαριτεύων [...]

[...]ος[^a1] Κομάτα[^a2]

[^a1: [...]ος | Τιμόνοθος]

[^a2: Κομάτα | Κομ[...] | Κομανῶ]

[...]os fils de Komatas a consacré ce monument durant sa prêtrise [...]

[...]os son of Komatas dedicated this monument while being priest [...]

[...]os figlio di Komatas ha dedicato questo monumento quando era sacerdote [...]

The re-publication of the fragment by [...], pp. 139-40 n. 1a is the result of an error on the inventory number; given there as 2072, it would have proven a common provenance with other objects found at Martūbah, whereas the very clear photo shows the inventory number 271, corresponding to the stone seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1976 and published after autopsy by Pugliese Carratelli with help of Oliverio's archive for the findspot. We infer the date of find from the number of the latter's notebook.

As to the father's name, we reject the restoration Κομανός, a Roman name, and prefer the Greek name Κομάτας. It is thus worth mentioning that this is the father's name of two different men having a personal name ending with -os, one known as an officer about 340 at IGCyr006800, the other having contributed to a subscription about 280 at IGCyr065210. [...] prefers the latter, named Timonothos, and dates his priesthood between 246 and 220 BC. This restitution is tantalizing. However, Dobias-Lalou sticks cautiously to the reading already adopted for the first edition of [...].

Rather than an altar (pace [...]), this base might have been surmounted by a stone basin of a type often dedicated in the sanctuary of Apollo.

The stone is broken below, so that the dedication may have been complete with the preserved two lines, but may also have included the verb of dedication and the name of the god on more lines below.