Dedication to Hekate
IGCyr102900
Trismegistos ID: 738540
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar of the type with one compartment, which is completely worn out (0.34; 0.13;0.34).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, just under what is now the upper edge.
Letters
0.04; slanting sigma.
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 pleiades; HGL : at the West end of the Sanctuary of Apollo , near the Wall of Nicodamos .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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 , 217 (no image). Cf. Parisi Presicce, 1990 Parisi Presicce, C., 1990, Nuovi altari nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Indagini preparatorie per la ricostruzione grafica delle fasi architettoniche dell’area sacra, in Giornata Lincea sulla Archeologia Cirenaica: Roma, 3 Novembre 1987, Atti dei Convegni Lincei87, Roma, 121-155 - see in bibliography , p. 125.
Apparatus
French translation
(Autel d')Hécate.
English translation
(Altar of) Hekate.
Italian translation
(Altare di) Ecate.
Commentary
About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800, IGCyr103000, IGCyr103200, IGCyr103300, IGCyr103400, IGCyr103430) see Parisi Presicce, 1990 Parisi Presicce, C., 1990, Nuovi altari nel santuario di Apollo a Cirene. Indagini preparatorie per la ricostruzione grafica delle fasi architettoniche dell’area sacra, in Giornata Lincea sulla Archeologia Cirenaica: Roma, 3 Novembre 1987, Atti dei Convegni Lincei87, Roma, 121-155 - see in bibliography and now also 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 , p. 141.
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