Dedication to a goddess and to Apollo
IGCyr021900
Trismegistos ID: 738242
Source Description
Support
Fragmentary limestone altar with two compartments, broken off at left (0.32; 0.118;0.24).
Layout
Inscribed on front side.
Letters
0.032.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fifth to fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South-Eastern part of Sanctuary of Apollo .
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 9, n. 8c (no image), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.140; 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 , 214 (ph.).
Apparatus
1 Ἀπόλλ(ων) : Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography Ἀπόλλ[ωνος] : 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 Ἀπόλλ(ωνος)
French translation
[---] a. Apoll(on).
English translation
[---] a. Apoll(o).
Italian translation
[---] a. Apoll(o).
Commentary
This belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'.
One name should have been inscribed in correspondence with each compartment.
The name on the left was probably that of a feminin deity; thus Apollo's name, here abbreviated, should also be expanded at the nominative.
Alternatively, the first name might be that of a rare masculine in -ας, such as Ἀρχαγέτας, and we should thus read Ἀπόλλ(ωνος). However this hypotheses seems to be less probable.
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