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C.247. Fragmentary dedication?

Description: Left side of a small marble base (w: 0.51 x h: 0.21 x d: 0.22).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: First century CE: 0.018.

Date: First century CE

Findspot: Cyrene: Altar of Artemis, among debris in the upper layers; recorded in 1927.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Interpretive

Αἰγλάνωρ Α[--- τῶ?]
Καρνήδα ἱερατ[εύων ἀνέθηκεν? ---]

Diplomatic

ΑΙΓΛΑΝΩΡΑ[---..]
ΚΑΡΝΗΔΑΙΕΡΑΤ[............---]

Apparatus

1: ἀ[νέθηκεν] Oliverio, 1929
2: ἱερατ[εύοντος] Oliverio, 1929

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

Aiglanor, (scil. son) of A[-? son] of Karnedas, serving as priest [?dedicated]

Commentary

For the altar, see Oliverio, loc.cit. 128f.

Oliverio's reconstruction is without a close parallel; the restoration here follows Marengo, an alternative which corresponds with more normal practice; perhaps Αἰγλάνωρ Α[ἰγλάνορος τῶ] / Καρνήδα.

Bibliography: Oliverio, 1929, 7, p.128, and fig. 16. p.122, on which Roussel, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1930, p.216, whence SEG 9.118, PHI 323972; discussed by Marengo, 1991a, 496-500, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1992.584, SEG 41.1697
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Face (C. Dobias-Lalou, 2004: MFA 04/II/28)