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C.770. Dedication

Description: Fragments of a marble panel.
Text: Inscribed on the face; lines 1-2 on one fragment, 3-4 on another.
Letters: Apparently standard forms; line 2, ΤΩ apparently in ligature.

Date: Not determinable

Findspot: Cyrene: Recorded in 1833.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot 1833

Interpretive

Ἀρίσταρχος Θ̣-
[ε]υχρήσ[τω]
ἱαριτεύων ἀ-
νέθηκε

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤΑΡΧΟΣ.
[.]ΥΧΡΗΣ[..]
ΙΑΡΙΤΕΥΩΝΑ
ΝΕΘΗΚΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Aristarchos (scil. son) of Theuchrestos, being priest, dedicated (scil. this).

Commentary

For this man, priest between 4 and 19 CE, see C.48; he may also have dedicated a statue of his wife in the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, C.450.

Bibliography: CIG, Vol.III, 5135, from a copy by Graberg da Hemso, whence SGDI, 4843.
Text constituted from: From previous publications (Reynolds)

Images

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