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Limestone altar with two compartments ( 0.34 0.10 0.605 ).

 Inscribed on front face, which is the shorter one. 0.025 to 0.03. Findspot. Perhaps second half of fifth century B.C.

Found between 1929 and 1930 at Cyrene: in the so called Agora of the Gods.

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.

Not seen by IGCyr team.

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Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 225 (no image). Cf. , p. 498 .

Text Κρε̄τικχός
Apparatus

Courète de Crète.

Cretan Curete.

Curete di Creta.

Commentary

We retain dubiously Morelli's reading and interpretation as a misspelling of Κρητικός known for the Cretan Curete at IGCyr019600. However the ethnic alone would remain puzzling. Was the god's name cut on another face and now lost? This idea would be strengthened if we could check the lettering and suppose that the writer was a beginner in Ionian script, still using epsilon in the first syllable and confusing kappa and chi. We give arbitrarily a date on that assumption.

About the excavations in that part of the Sanctuary, see and now also , pp. 129, 133 .