Dedication to Zeus Soter and other gods
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Between ca. 280 and ca. 220 BC (Rosamilia)
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[...], VI.20 and [...], VIII.53, whence [...], 155 (no image) for section a only; [...], p. 219 (quick mention of section b) ; [...], pp. 175 and 366-367, whence [...], 38.1887 for the whole monument; [...] 100000; [...], pp. 354-355, number 77 (text).

[...]2.75 metre Κυράνα Ἀπόλλων [...] 0.75 metre Λιβύα [...]1.75 metre

Ζηνὶ Σωτῆρι καὶ θεοῖς [...] παῖσιν Κυραναῖοι ἀνέθηκαν

[^1][^a1] καὶ θεοῖς [...] παῖσιν[^a2]

[^a1: om. | Λιβύα Κυράνα Ἀπόλλων]

[^a2: καὶ θεοῖς [...] παῖσιν | καὶ θεοῖς ἐπιχωρίοις παῖσιν | καὶ θεοῖς ἐν τᾶι ἀγορᾶι παῖσιν | καὶ [...] θεοῖς Σωτῆρσιν [...] | [...]θεοῖσιν Σωτῆρσιν | [...] θεοῖσιν [...]]

[^1: Edited as on the recomposed monument]

(a) [...] Cyrène. Apollon. [...] Telle autre divinité. Libye. [...]

(b) A Zeus Sôtèr et [...] à tous les dieux [...] [...] les Cyrénéens ont consacré ce monument.

(a) [...] Cyrene. Apollo. [...] Such-and-such deity. Libya. [...]

(b) To Zeus Soter and to all the gods [...] [...] the Cyrenaeans dedicated this monument.

(a) [...] Cirene. Apollo. [...] La tal divinità. Libia. [...]

(b) A Zeus Sotere e a tutti li dèi [...] [...] i Cirenei hanno dedicato questo monumento.

The base, which stood in front of the North Stoa, was restored by Stucchi and his team in 1976 and the fragments of (b) have been placed so as to be in agreement with the restoration suggested by Gasperini, who only mentioned the formula at [...], p. 219 as a matter of comparison with the dedication of the North Stoa before which it stood. There has been no publication either of the inscription or of the recomposition of the monument.

Besides, the fragments of marble of this base and of the two monumental altars standing on the agora further to the South, re-used or simply thrown down, were intermingled and scattered all around, so that it was difficult to distinguish amongst them before the careful restoration of all three monuments made by the Italian archaeologists. So the dedication (b) was first thought to belong to the Western Monumental Altar of the Agora (so [...], p. 20, [...], [...], p. 97, footnote 39).

[...], described the monument and pointed out that the fragment iii, being loose, might be placed elsewhere; however he did not suppress Gasperini's θεοῖσιν, a poetical form out of place here.

In the first edition of [...] C. Dobias-Lalou offered a restoration mentioning Gods Soteres, who were thought to be Ptolemy I and Berenice I on Laronde's idea. The latter argued that at least one statue was later on replaced by that of a Roman emperor (see IRCyr2020 C.121), whereas a statue of Livia was added. This replacement would hide a sort of continuity. Moreover, he suggested that also Magas was mentioned, καὶ βασιλῆι Μάγαι fitting well the gap (Magas, having a priest (IGCyr020000) was a θεός; that he was also Σωτήρ was a pure hypothesis. The proposed date was thus ca. 275 BC.

While arguing again the Gods Soteres on behalf both of the space available and and of the absence af such mention in Hellenistic times, [...] endorses the displacement of fragment iii and offers an excellent reading παῖσιν 'all' for it. In order to fill the preceding gap, he suggests the gods of the agora; however the formulation without any article would sharply contrast with the three occurrences already known at IGCyr019900, IGCyr020000 and IGCyr020100 (see also IGCyr100200, b.7-8). As Rosamilia himself points out, the statues standing on the monumental base were those of Apollo, Cyrene, Libya and at least one other (Poseidon? Ammon?), all being especially linked to the local myths. Thus our suggestion of θεοί ἐπιχώριοι. At any rate, it is impossible to be sure of the position of fragments ii, iii and iv unless a thorough publication of all archaeological data occurs.