Dedication to Apollo, Panakeia and Aphrodite
IGCyr102800
Trismegistos ID: 738537
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with 3 very shallow compartments (overall 1.21; 0.22;0.45; compartments from left to right: 0.32;0.37, 0.34;0.37, 0.33;0.37).
Layout
Inscribed on front face under the upper edge, in correspondence with each compartment.
Letters
0.03; small omicron, very short right stroke of pi, slanting sigma, small and flat loop of phi.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fourth or beginning of third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , East of the Wall of Nicodamos .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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 , 213 (no image). Cf. Parisi Presicce, 1990 Parisi Presicce, C., 1990, Nuovi altari nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Indagini preparatorie per la ricostruzione grafica delle fasi architettoniche dell’area sacra, in Giornata Lincea sulla Archeologia Cirenaica: Roma, 3 Novembre 1987, Atti dei Convegni Lincei87, Roma, 121-155 - see in bibliography , p. 125.
Apparatus
French translation
(Autels d') Apollon, de Panakeia, d'Aphrodite.
English translation
(Altars of) Apollo, of Panakeia, of Aphrodite.
Italian translation
(Altari di) Apollo, di Panakeia, di Afrodite.
Commentary
About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102900, IGCyr103000, IGCyr103200, IGCyr103300, IGCyr103400, IGCyr103430) see Parisi Presicce, 1990 Parisi Presicce, C., 1990, Nuovi altari nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Indagini preparatorie per la ricostruzione grafica delle fasi architettoniche dell’area sacra, in Giornata Lincea sulla Archeologia Cirenaica: Roma, 3 Novembre 1987, Atti dei Convegni Lincei87, Roma, 121-155 - see in bibliography and now also Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , p. 141.
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