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
Date
Second half of fourth to first half of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 9-10, n. 8f; Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , p. 166, n. 46, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.107.
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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