Dedication on occasion of a telesphoria
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Ca. 365 BC
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[...], n. 18, whence [...] 4837 and [...] 232; [...], p. 130, footnote 3; [...] XVI.9, whence [...], 146 and figg. 107-108s; [...] 099400; [...], p. 84-85 (findspot), pp. 196-197 (typology), pp. 372-373, number 99 (text). Cf. [...], p. 114, whence [...], 38.1891; [...], p. 57 and [...], 2005.623, whence [...], 53.2044; [...], p. 245-248.

Εὐβάτας Ἀκεσάνδρω Ἠρίλοχος Στράτητος Ἁγήσαρχος Κλέωνος

Ἀλεξίμαχος Αἰγλάνορος Ἐτυμοκλῆς Ἀριστ[...] Δαμόκοσμος Θε[...]

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

τελεσφορέντες τὰν ὀπὰν ἀνέθηκαν

Ἀκεσάνδρω[^1][^a1] Ἀριστ[...][^a2] τὰν ὀπὰν ἀνέθηκαν[^a3]

[^a1: Ἀκεσάνδρω | Τελέσανδρω]

[^a2: Ἀριστ[...] | Ἀριστ[...] | Ἀριστ[...]]

[^a3: τὰν ὀπὰν ἀνέθηκαν | τὰν ὀπὰν | τὰν ο[...] | τὰν ο[...] | τὰν θόλον | τὰν θυσίαν | τὰν θεάν]

[^1: a second nu was inserted by another hand after the main one]

Eubatas fils d'Akésandros, Erilokhos fils de Stratès, Hagesarchos fils de Kléôn

Aleximakhos fils d'Aiglanôr, Etymoklès fils d'Arist[...], Damokosmos fils de The[...]

Untel fils d'Untel, Untel fils d'Untel, Untel fils d'Untel

ont consacré cette baie lors de la telesphoria.

Eubatas son of Akesandros, Erilochos son of Strates, Hagesarchos son of Kleon

Aleximachos son of Aiglanor, Etymokles son of Arist[...], Damokosmos son of The[...]

So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so son of So-and-so, So-and-so son of So-and-so

dedicated this bay while celebrating the telesphoria.

Eubatas figlio di Akesandros, Erilochos figlio di Strates, Hagesarchos figlio di Kleon,

Aleximachos figlio di Aiglanor, Etymokles figlio di Arist[...], Damokosmos figlio di The[...]

il tale figlio del tale, il tale figlio del tale, il tale figlio del tale

hanno dedicato questo vano in occasione della telesphoria.

Pugliese Carratelli at [...], 146 republished the inscription with photograph and sketch from Oliverio's papers (his notebook number XVI dates of 1936).

With the most plausible restoration, this stone is explicitly the architrave overlooking a door (ὀπά). Its findspot corresponds to a re-use, but the idea expressed at [...], that it might belong to the temple which is thought to have antedated the Hall of the Orthostats should probably be dropped. The width of the stone, if completed as proposed, would be about 2.5. The shorter restoration proposed by some scholars at l. 10 would lead to ca. 1.7, which would be too short for a third column of names and too long for only two columns.

[...] discusses the various temples without pronaos in the vicinity which would match such an architrave. His best hypotheses are 1) Apollo's temple on the agora, 2) the temple of the Dioscuri in the Eastern part of that area, 3) and less probably the anonymous and levelled off temple E3 on the agora.

The restoration of Aiglanor as father's name at line 4 is certain, as no shorter form of this typically Cyrenaican name is attested at Cyrene. This allows to have a basis for restoring the overall dimensions of the stone.

Both Pugliese Carratelli at [...], 146 and [...] mention holes on the upper face to accommodate a statue. But the shape of the holes does not correspond to feet. If they were intended for attachment of some object, this would be for to a later use, perhaps in the Hall of the Orthostats, where the stone presently lies.

Some letters echoing those of the inscription were probably scratched on the front face by visitors (see at l. 1); however we found no hint of those drawn by Oliverio below the inscription in his sketch given at [...], fig. 108. [...] suspects that Pugliese Carratelli did not understand on Oliverio's drawing a sketch of the sequence with a sperfluous N in the second name of line 1, appended by Oliverio below the image of the inscription.