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 : 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 , 217 (no image). Cf. Parisi Presicce, 1990 , p. 125.

Text

Ἑκάτας

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 and now also Luni, 2014 , p. 141.

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