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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 : 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Ferri, 1923 , p. 9, n. 8a (no image), whence SEG , 9.137; published again by Morelli, SECir , 218 (no image), as if unpublished.

Text

Ἱσ[τ]ί̣ας.

Apparatus

1 Ferri, 1923  Ἱσ[τ]ίας : SECir  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 , 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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