Dedication to the Cretan Curete

IGCyr019600

Trismegistos ID: 106099

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 588.

Support

Sandstone block worn out on all sides, probably an altar with compartment (0.255; 0.15;0.36).

Layout

Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters

Average 0.035; rho with large loop ending low on the vertical stroke, slanting sigma, widely open and low omega; letters deeply cut.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth or third century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found before 1932 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo , so called 'Piazzale' in Oliverio's words.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1932-1933 , p. 166, n. 47, fig. 49, whence SEG , 9.108; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 , pp. 227, 263, whence SEG , 50.1637.

Text

Κωρὴς Κρητικ̣[ός].

Apparatus

2 Κρητικ̣[ός] : Oliverio, 1933-1936  Κρήτης

French translation

Kourète Crétois.

English translation

Cretan Curete.

Italian translation

Curete Cretese.

Commentary

The lettering seems later than Oliverio thought («buona epoca»).

At l. 2 the two missing letters might have been cut on the right side of the stone.

This deity, a single Curete, attested many times in Cyrenaica, is also known at Thera, whereas elsewhere there are several Curetes.

The mention Κρητικός is also attested in IGCyr103410.

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