Dedication to Apollo

IGCyr022000

Trismegistos ID: 738243

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar with two compartments (the right one broken off); left part of front side now missing (0.48; 0.14;0.33).

Layout

Inscribed; written in correspondance with both compartments.

Letters

0.035; smaller circular letters, asymetric nu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Late fifth or early fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : 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 , p. 9, n. 8c, whence SEG , 9.141; also SECir , 212.

Text

Ἀπόλλωνος.

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) d'Apollon.

English translation

(Altar) of Apollo.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Apollo.

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.

With help of ancient photographs, Pugliese Carratelli and Morelli (SECir ) were able in 1960 to identify the altar and added description and dimensions.

When seen by Dobias-Lalou (1982), the stone, already broken on the photograph, had lost its left part.

The use of omega shows that the inscription cannot be older than the end of the fifth century B.C.

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