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 : 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 , 213 (no image). Cf. Parisi Presicce, 1990 , p. 125.

Text

Ἀπώλλωνος (vac. 2) Πανακείας (vac. 2) Ἀφροδίτας

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 and now also Luni, 2014 , p. 141.

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