Dedication to Apollo, Aphrodite, Hekata

IGCyr102810

Trismegistos ID: 738538

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar made of two adjacent blocks (a and b) with two compartments each; compartment 1 (block a, left) has been broken off and the compartment 4 (block b, right) is much worn out (0.61; 0.185;0.38 as from ed. princ., are obviously the dimensions of block b only).

Layout

Inscribed on the front face in correspondence with the compartments 1, 3 and 4, whereas the surface is too badly damaged to read anything relating to compartment 2.

Letters

Compartment 3 0.026; compartment 4 0.03.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps second half of third or first half of second century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1929 or 1930 at Cyrene : West of the Strategeion, in the so-called Agora of the Gods .

Last recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor and photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 215. Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 and Luni, 2014 , pp. 129, 133 (circumstances of find).

Text

| Ἀπόλλōνο̣ς̣ [c. 8]  | Ἀφροδίτας (vac. 2) Ἑκάτας

Apparatus

1 Ἀπόλλōνο̣ς̣ [c. 8]  : SECir  (block a was not mentioned nor transcribed by Morelli)

French translation

(Autels d') Apollon, de  [---] , d'Aphrodite, d'Hécate.

English translation

(Altars of ) Apollo, of  [---] , of Aphrodite, of Hekate.

Italian translation

(Altari di ) Apollo, di  [---] , di Afrodite, di Ecate.

Commentary

The photograph in SECir , 215, fig. 159 clearly shows two similar and adjoining blocks and allows to read at least the first name inscribed on block a.

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