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 pleiades; HGL : 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 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 , 215. Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C., 2007, Apobomios, epibomios, probomios: indagini sul culto di Apollo a Cirene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, 491-524Tivoli, - see in bibliography and 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 , pp. 129, 133 (circumstances of find).
Apparatus
1 Ἀπόλλōνο̣ς̣ [c. 8] : 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 (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 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 , 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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