Dedication to Aphrodite, Cyrene and the Curete
IGCyr019800
Trismegistos ID: 106100
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with two compartments, inscribed on the fore-rim of each (total 1.32; 1.22;0.78; inscribed zone 0.89; 0.085; -).
Layout
Inscribed, each inscription corresponding to a compartment.
Letters
0.03.
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 : 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 , n. 8e; Oliverio, 1932-1933 Oliverio, G., 1932-1933, Documenti antichi dell'Africa Italiana, I, fasc. 1-2, Bergamo - see in bibliography , pp. 165-166, n. 44-45, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.110.
Apparatus
French translation
section a
(Autel d')Aphrodite.
section b
(Autel de) Cyrène, du Kourète.
English translation
section a
(Altar of) Aphrodite.
section b
(Altar of) Cyrene, of the Curete.
Italian translation
section a
(Altare di) Afrodite.
section b
(Altare di) Cirene, del Curete.
Commentary
The left compartment was intended only for Aphrodite, whereas the right one was used both for Cyrene and for the Curete.
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