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 : 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 , 227 b (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 248, n. 18.

Text

  ← [Κυρ]άνα

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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