Dedication of tithe and artist's signature
created: Transcription from stone (CDL).
source date: Perhaps second half of third or rather beginning of second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] (ph.), whence [...], 66.2337; [...] 125700.

Cf. [...], whence [...] 68.1746.

[...] [...] αδ [...] Ἀπόλλωνι δεκάταν [...][...]ονίσκου ἐποίησεν.

[...] a consacré à Apollon au titre de la dîme.

Oeuvre d'Untel fils de [...]oniskos.

[...] dedicated to Apollo as a tithe.

Work of So-and-so son of [...]oniskos.

[...] ha dedicato ad Apollo come decima.

Opera del tale figlio di [...]oniskos.

Although very fragmentary, this inscription consists clearly of a dedication with an artist's signature in smaller characters below.

At line 2, the restoration was chosen on behalf of its high frequency in Cyrenaean inscriptions. It is associated with an artist's signature in IGCyr019000. At first view it is not quite impossible that the text read ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων 'at his own expense', which would be used for honoring a person with a statue. However such formulas occur only later and exclusively for building or reparing works.

At line 3, we restore the most common formula. There also exists at Cyrene at least one instance with ἔργον (see IGCyr108400 with the commentary). In the latter case, the ending of genitive would belong to the sculptor's name. In the preferred reading, the father's name of the sculptor ended with -ονίσκος. No such name is hitherto attested in Cyrene. As no ethnic is mentioned, thie sculptor was plausibly a Cyrenaean.