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On the 10th of Panamos, a yearling billy goat to Dionysus; the
Le 10 Panamos, un bouc d'un an à Dionysos; les hiéropes [le sacrifient].
The inscription is one of a large number of extracts from a sacrificial calendar inscribed or recodified in the late Classical or early Hellenistic period and disseminated at various local sanctuaries, presumably as punctual reminders and short regulations in and of themselves (for the early beginning of such excerpts, cf. here CGRN 62 and CGRN 63, both from Lindos). The excerpts perhaps come from the general sacrificial calendar of the unified city of Rhodes or perhaps equally probably from that of Kamiros itself. See e.g. CGRN 110 for further examples from Kamiros; e.g. CGRN 115, for others from Lindos. For a general discussion of these excerpts, see Segre and Carbon forthc. Though the inscription appears to date later than most of these Hellenistic excerpts, Segre (1951) notes that the text nonetheless preserves a general style and especially a layout typical of the earlier excerpts from the sacrificial calendar; it may therefore have been reinscribed in the late Hellenistic or early Roman period after an earlier model.
The excerpt is particularly brief in this case (for other very brief excerpts, cp. CGRN 112, Kamiros, and both CGRN 115 and CGRN 116, Lindos). Its context is unfortunately now lost. This part of the calendar may have originally pertained to the cult of Dionysus on or near the Acropolis of Kamiros: a priesthood of the god is well known at the site from the early Hellenistic period (cf. e.g.
As Segre aptly notes, the offering of a billy goat to Dionysus is particularly evocative. Dionysus was well known as the recipient of offerings of such animals (recall, for instance, the popular etymology of tragedy as a "goat-song" following the sacrifice of such an animal prior to the performance of plays in the theatre). Indeed, sacrifices of he-goats are well-attested for the god, as in CGRN 57 (Aixone), lines 9-11, Dionysus Anthios; and especially ones having reached a minimum or precise age, cf. here CGRN 32 (Thorikos), lines 33-34 (during the Anthesteria, a sacrifice of a he-goat having lost its milk teeth, i.e. probably during the second year of life when the adult teeth erupted); as well as CGRN 169 (Kallatis), lines 11-13 (heavily restored, but possibly also a yearling billy goat for Dionysus). That being said, the timing of this sacrificial occasion at Kamiros remains to be further elucidated. The date of the 10th of Panamos (a high-summer month, ca. July/August, the last in the Rhodian calendar according to reconstruction of the Rhodian calendar refined by Badoud and generally adopted here; for a different view, see Iversen) is not otherwise attested. Sacrifices for Dionysus took place two months earlier (10th of Agrianios) in the territory of nearby Lindos: CGRN 116.