Dedication to Hermes and Heracles
created: Transcription from previous editors.
source date: End of second or beginning of first century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] (mention) and [...], n. 848 (and preceding editions), both as from Tripolitania; [...] VI.64, whence [...], 163; [...], n. 7; [...], 1988.1011; [...], p. 307 (ph., dr.) and [...], 1989.832, whence [...], 37.1674; [...], p. 165; [...] 100700.

[...] [...]υσανίου γυμνασιαρχήσας ἱαρὰς ξύστρας ὀγδοήκοντα Ἑρμᾶι Ἡρακλεῖ

[...]υσανίου[^a1] γυμνασιαρχήσας[^a2] ἱαρὰς[^a3] ξύστρας[^a4] ὀγδοήκοντα[^a5] Ἑρμᾶι Ἡρακλεῖ[^a6]

[^a1: [...]υσανίου | Παυσανίου | Λυσανίου | Παυσανίου]

[^a2: γυμνασιαρχήσας | [...]αρχήσας]

[^a3: ἱαρὰς | ἱερὰς | νεὰς | τὰς | χαλκᾶς | [...]]

[^a4: ξύστρας | [...]υστρας]

[^a5: ὀγδοήκοντα | [...]θήκοντα]

[^a6: Ἑρμᾶι Ἡρακλεῖ | [...]τῶι Ἡρακλεῖ | Ἑρμᾶι καὶ Ἡρακλεῖ]

Untel fils de [...]ysanias, après avoir exercé la gymnasiarchie a consacré comme biens des dieux quatre-vingt strigiles à Hermès et Héraclès.

So-and-so son of [...]ysanias, after having been gymnasiarch, dedicated as sacred eighty strigils to Hermes and Heracles.

Il tale figlio di [...]ysanias, dopo essere stato ginnasiarco, ha dedicato come sacri ottanta strigili a Ermes e a Eracle.

(فلان) بن [---] يسانياس، بعد أن كان جمنازيارخ (مشرف بالجمنازيوم)، (أهدى) ثمانين مكشطاً[مقدسة] إلى [هرمس] وهيراكلس.

Brought to Tripoli during World War II, this inscription has been kept there as if coming from Marsa Diba (or Dila) in North-Western Tripolitania, whence its mention by [...] and its edition in [...] and successive editions in 1952 and 2009. Pugliese Carratelli, not aware of the latter, published it at [...], 163 from Oliverio's papers and apparently from his own observation at Tripoli. It was Marengo's merit at [...] to fill the gap and definitely establish the findspot with the help of an unpublished excavation report. Another report mentioning the find is now available at [...], p. 147.This item should be definitively deleted from the future reeditions of the Tripolitanian collection.

The restoration of ἱαράς, proposed by C. Dobias-Lalou at line 3 is far from sure, but seems plausible to fit the gap; the adjective would have a predicative value, reinforcing the meaning of the subaudible verb of dedication. S. Marengo's restoration νέας gives a slightly different meaning: the gymnasiarch would have provided new strigils as a necessary duty of his charge. However this does not account for the aorist participle (he was then out of charge) nor for the act of dedication (why new strigils offered to the gods, whence useless ?) ; moreover the restored word seems rather short for the space available.

The father's name at line 1 calls to mind two names attested in Cyrenaica, either Pausanias or Lysanias. We cannot choose between them because we don't know how many letters are missing at the beginning of the name. Besides, there is a slight linguistic ambiguity about its ending, here at the genitive with -ιου, a form of koine if from Pausanias / Lysanias. Very few instances of the variants Pausanios / Lysanios are known from Rhodes. In fact, there is in this inscription no other distinctive feature leading to ascribe the text to the dialect. It seems thus better to decide that the text was in koine and the name had the normal ending in -ias.