Dedication to the nymph Cyrene
IGCyr006650
Trismegistos ID: 738173
Source Description
Support
Limestone block with compartment on top; upper and lower plain mouldings at front, left and back sides, obviously recut at right, bearing also IGCyr006600 (0.295; 0.48;0.345).
Layout
Inscribed on front panel, under the moulding (0.26; 0.265;0.27).
Letters
0.04-0.06; right to left, alpha with oblique bar, dissymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fifth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at an unknown date at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : so-called Agora of the Gods .
Last recorded Location
Seen by Dobias-Lalou on May 15th, 1977 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription after autopsy (CDL).
Bibliography
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 227 b (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1970, Pour une chronologie des inscriptions archaïques de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 44, 228-256 - see in bibliography , p. 248, n. 18.
Apparatus
French translation
Cyrène.
English translation
Cyrene.
English translation
Cirene.
Arabic translation
إهداء للحورية كيريني
Commentary
The script shows clearly that this mention was inscribed earlier than IGCyr006600 ( contra Morelli); for that re-use (or later on) the block was cut at right.
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