Tithe for Apollo
created: Transcription from stones (CDL).
source date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[...] Δαμασάνορος υἱὸς τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι δεκάταν Τέλωνα Δαμασάνορος

Untel fils de Damasanôr a consacré à Apollon au titre de la dîme la statue de Télôn fils de Damasanôr.

So-and-so son of Damasanor dedicated to Apollo as a tithe the statue of Telon son of Damasanor.

Il tale figlio di Damasanor ha dedicato ad Apollo come decima la statua di Telon figlio di Damasanor.

In most occurrences of such dedications of a statue, the name of the honoured person is mentioned first at the accusative and the name of the dedicant comes at the end at the nominative. However, the contrary is possible and seems to be preferable here on behalf of the space necessary at line 2 for the name of Apollo.

The word υἱός is normally subaudible after the genitive of the father's name. Another possibility would be to cut the father's name Δαμασάνο|ρος at the end of line 1 and have its last syllable at line 2. Yet this would make line 1 shorter that the following lines and such a cut is quite unusual. So we choose to add the word for 'son', stressing the family relation between the anonymous dedicant and his honored brother.

What sort of monument the recut stones were intended for is puzzling. Perhaps the framing of a latrines bench?