Dedication to the Curete

IGCyr019500

Trismegistos ID: 6006

Source Description

Support

White marble altar with cornice and moulding on top, broken off at both upper angles above cornice (total 0.495; 1.10;0.30; under cornice 0.40; 0.70;0.28).

Layout

Inscribed just under cornice.

Letters

0.025.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Second half of fourth to first half of third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, under the vestibule of the Byzantine Baths .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , pp. 9-10, n. 8f; Oliverio, 1932-1933 , p. 166, n. 46, whence SEG , 9.107.

Text

Κωρῆτος.

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) du Kourète.

English translation

(Altar) of the Curete.

Italian translation

(Altare) del Curete.

Commentary

This deity, a single Curete, is also attested at Thera, whereas elsewhere the Curetes are always a group.

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