IGI3 950 Dedication to Apollo

Dedication to Apollo

IG I³ 950 Date: 500-480 BC or later

. . . and (his) sons dedicated (this) as a tithe to Apollo. And Diphilos.^[1]

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IG I³ 950 (Translated text) (IG Online) (PHI)

SEG 54.75 (date)

Löhr, Familienweihungen 18

Agora XVIII 8

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Images: Agora Excavations - (1)
Aleshire - (1)

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Dedication (private?, Apollo)

Findspot: Acropolis (north slope, Klepsydra) (Ag. I 5577)

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[1] The block seems to have originally supported a group of small statuettes and was inscribed retrograde (right to left), to judge from letter forms at the end of the sixth or early in the fifth century BC. Subsequently, the reference to Diphilos was added in a different hand. It is not clear what his relationship to the original dedicators was, if any. Perhaps at the same time, a quadruped was added to the group of statuettes. The block's shape and this addition suggests that it was an offering table in front of a cult statue (Keesling, Hesperia 74, 2005, 399-401, with comparanda). Later still it was flipped over and used as the base for a bronze statue, before finally being incorporated into a parapet wall in the Klepsydra (on the north face of the Acropolis) in the Hellenistic period. This inscription has been used as evidence that the Cave of Apollo Hypo Makrais, which was located a little further up the north face of the Acropolis from its findspot in the Klepsydra, was already a sanctuary of Apollo in the archaic period. However, the value of the inscription for this purpose is limited, since Apollo is referred to in it without epithet and the complicated history of reuse means that it need not have been originally located near its findspot. Cult activity in the Cave is now attested at the end of the fifth century BC (SEG 52.48A F5, ll. 4-5), but no other dedications are known from it until the first century AD (Nulton, Sanctuary, pp. 25-26; Keesling, pp. 399-400).

Added: 26 Jul 2018
Updated: 8 Jul 2021
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