Dedication
IGCyr021600
Trismegistos ID: 738239
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with compartment, adjacent and similar to IGCyr021700 (0.56; 0.34;0.56).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.025-0.03; sigma taller than other letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : under vestibule of Byzantine Baths , which was formerly an area belonging to the so-called Agora of the Gods .
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 , p. 9, n. 8a (no image), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.137; published again by Morelli, SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 218 (no image), as if unpublished.
Apparatus
1 Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography Ἱσ[τ]ίας : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography Ἑ[κ]άτας
French translation
(Autel) d'Hestia.
English translation
(Altar) of Hestia.
Italian translation
(Altare) di Estia.
Commentary
Known through a simple mention by Ferri, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'. Neither illustration nor dimensions were given then.
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 218 gave no illustration, but from localisation, dimensions and similarity with IGCyr021700, Dobias-Lalou could trace the stone. However she was unable to provide any useful image.
Morelli's different reading is due to the bad condition of the stone, worn out and covered by concretion. The first sigma being clear, Ferri's reading seems the better one.
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