Dedication

IGCyr081400

Trismegistos ID: 738384

Source Description

Support

On a terracotta brazier still inserted into one of the compartments of a rectangular altar (0.462; 0.374;0.495).

Layout

Inscribed on one line of the narrower side, near the upper rim, but not visible when the brazier was inserted into the compartment.

Letters

0.06.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Ca. 400 B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

The altar was found during the excavations of 1930 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo , so-called Agora of the Gods at its Western end.

Last recorded Location

The brazier was taken out and its inscription discovered and studied in 1990 by Cl. Parisi Presicce in the Cyrene Museum : Storeroom of the American excavations .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Parisi Presicce, 1990 , pp. 121-128, whence SEG , 40.1598; Parisi Presicce, 1992 , whence SEG , 42.1667.

Text

Πανακείας.

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) de Panakeia.

English translation

(Altar) of Panaceia.

English translation

(Altare) di Panakeia.

Commentary

Only two compartments, one with this brazier, are preserved, but the dimensions of the lower part of the monument show that there were initially five of them (a similar example is IGCyr022300, where the gods' names are inscribed on the altar itself).

As Parisi Presicce, 1992 , points out, the inscription cut on the brazier and not on the altar made it possible to change the deity to which sacrifices were made.

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