Dedication for Apollo
created: Transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
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Bibliography

From a copy made in 1819 by Fr. Pacifico da Monte Cassiano and passed to Pietro Negri, the Sardinian consul in Tripoli, [...], 5141, and p. 1241; described, the left side being already lost, [...], from De Cou,193; see also [...], 68; [...], 43 and fig. 40 (from T. XI 73).

Μαρκοϲ Βαλέριοϲ Ἀρίστων ἱερώμενοϲ τοῦ κτίϲτου Ἀπόλλωνοϲ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων τὸ ἴχνοϲ ἐπεϲκεύαϲεν καὶ ἀνέθηκεν

Translations

A. Valerio Aristone, sacerdote di Apollo Ctiste, a proprie spese, restaurò e consacrò l'accesso (?).

M(arkos) Balerios M(arcus) Valerius Ariston, being priest of Apollo the founder, repaired and dedicated the footmark, from his own resources.

Commentary

Line 5: No doubt the imprint of a divine foot; for a discussion of dedications of this type very commonly offered to Serapis and Zeus Hypsistos, see M. Guarducci, Rend. Pont. Acc. XIX (1942/3) 305f..