CGRN 133

Small sacrificial regulation for Apollo Pythios at Athens

Date :

2nd century BC

Justification: lettering (Curbera).

Provenance

Athens . Found on the southern slope of the Acropolis. The stone has been connected to CGRN 72, found close to this inscription and seemingly bearing a similar or identical text.

Support

Fragment of a rectangular altar of Pentelic marble.

  • Height: unknown
  • Width: unknown
  • Depth: unknown

Layout

Unknown; no description available.

Bibliography

Edition here based on Kirchner IG II² 4989, with Sokolowski's restorations.

Other editions: IG II 1668; Curbera IG II³ 4, 1750.

Cf. also: Ziehen LGS II 22b; Sokolowski LSCG 25b; SEG 25, 233.

Further bibiography: Stengel 1910: 222-233; ; Kearns 2011.

Text


[Ἀπόλλω]νος [Πυθίο]·
[θύειν τρεῖς] ἑβδόμο⟨υ⟩ς [βοῦς].

Translation

[(Altar) of Apollo Pythios. Sacrifice three] crescent-shaped cakes.

Traduction

[(Autel) d'Apollon Pythios. Sacrifier trois] gâteaux en forme de croissant.

Commentary

This 4th- or 3rd-century altar is part of a group of mostly short inscriptions (cf. e.g. CGRN 53 and CGRN 54) found in Piraeus and in or near the city Asklepieion of Athens, prescribing the (preliminary) offering of cakes to various divinities. The stone has been connected in particular to CGRN 72, found close to this inscription and seemingly bearing a similar or identical text. Cf. that inscription for further commentary.

Publication

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike International License 4.0 .

All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the DOI (https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN133), as well as the year of consultation (see “Home” for details on how to cite or click “Export Citation” to create a reference for this specific file).

Authors

  • Jan-Mathieu Carbon
  • Saskia Peels
  • Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

How To Cite

Brief citation of the Greek text : CGRN 133, lines x-x.

Reference to the file as a critical study of the inscription : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels et Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, "CGRN 133: Small sacrificial regulation for Apollo Pythios at Athens", in Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on April 28, 2025. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be/file/133/; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN133.

Full citation of the CGRN in a list of abbreviations or a bibliography is the following : Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Saskia Peels-Matthey, Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Collection of Greek Ritual Norms (CGRN), 2017-, consulted on April 28, 2025. URL: http://cgrn.ulg.ac.be; DOI: https://doi.org/10.54510/CGRN0.

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                    [(Altar) of Apollo Pythios. Sacrifice three] crescent-shaped cakes.
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                    [(Autel) d'Apollon Pythios. Sacrifier trois] gâteaux en forme de croissant.
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                <p>This 4th- or 3rd-century altar is part of a group of mostly short inscriptions (cf. e.g. <ref target="CGRN_53">CGRN 53</ref> and <ref target="CGRN_54">CGRN 54</ref>) found in Piraeus and in or near the city Asklepieion of Athens, prescribing the (preliminary) offering of cakes to various divinities. The stone has been connected in particular to <ref target="CGRN_72">CGRN 72</ref>, found close to this inscription and seemingly bearing a similar or identical text. Cf. that inscription for further commentary.
                   
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