Dedication to Cyrene (?) and Aphrodite

IGCyr102820

Trismegistos ID: 738539

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar with only one compartment preserved (out of two or three) (0.31; 0.07;0.33).

Layout

Inscribed, probably on the front face.

Letters

0.015 to 0.02.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Third or second century B.C. (monument-type)

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.

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 216 (no image). Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 and Luni, 2014 , pp. 129, 133 (circumstances of find).

Text

[Κυρά?]να̣ (vac.) Ἀ̣φ̣ρ̣ο̣δίτας

Apparatus

French translation

[Cyrè?]ne. (Autel d') Aphrodite.

English translation

[Cyre?]ne. (Altar of) Aphrodite.

Italian translation

[Cire?]ne. (Altare di) Aphrodite.

Commentary

This was published by Morelli without illustration and only the printed layout informs us. The reading seems to be very uncertain and a nominative at line 1 would be very surprising. Such altars also bear names at the genitive of men who are whorshippers of the mentioned god. The shift in the layout might sustain this idea. So we cannot exclude a personal name ending with -ας. Moreover, as the alpha itself was unclear to Morelli, the whole remains very obscure.

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