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 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.
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 , 216 (no image). 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
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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