IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

C.232. Dedication of an image of Athena to Apollo

Description: Three marble fragments from a base, moulded above, (a and b together, w: 0.48 x h: 0.15 x d: 0.55 and c. w: 0.185 x h: 0.175 x d: 0.55).
Text: Inscribed on the moulding
Letters: Third century CE: lines 1,2, 0.03; line 3, 0.025; lunate sigma, cursive omega.

Date: Second-third centuries CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Described, a as from the Sanctuary, c more precisely as from the area north west of the Roman Propylaeum. Photographed in 1928 .
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum.

Interpretive

[Μ(ᾶρκοϲ) Ἰού]λιοϲ Κο̣κ̣κ̣ηια[νὸϲ Πειθάγορα]ϲ Πλάτων
[ἱαριτεύ]ων ( vac. 1) τὰν Ἀθάνα[ν ἐκ τᾶν τῶ Ἀπ]όλλωνοϲ
( vac. 1) προϲόδω[ν? ἀνέθηκεν ( vac. 1)]

Diplomatic

[.....]ΛΙΟϹΚ...ΗΙΑ[............]ϹΠΛΑΤΩΝ
[.......]ΩΝ  ΤΑΝΑΘΑΝΑ[..........]ΟΛΛΩΝΟϹ
  ΠΡΟϹΟΔΩ[..........]

Apparatus

1: ].IHIA[ SECir, 1961-1962

English translation

Translation by: Editors

M(arkos) Oulpios Kokkeianos (i.e. M(arcus) Ulpius Cocceianus) Peithagoras Plato, being priest dedicated the (scil. statue of) Athene from the funds of Apollo.

Commentary

For the dedicator see C.217, C.224

Bibliography: (b): SECir, 1961-1962, 33, and fig. 31 (from T. XI 33); (c): Oliverio, 1930, 18, p. 192, with p.211, and fig. 51, whence SEG 9.97; b, and c revised and republished, with a, Reynolds, 1974-1975a, 3, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1976.787, Dobias-Lalou, 1993, 28.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. All three fragments (Reynolds XII.98.3)

   Fig. 2. Fragment a (Reynolds VIII.49)

   Fig. 3. Fragment b (Reynolds VIII.50)

   Fig. 4. Fragment c (Reynolds VIII.51)