Dedication to Hekate and another deity

IGCyr103100

Trismegistos ID: 738543

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 521.

Support

Small fragment of a sandstone altar with two compartments, broken off at left and right and at back (0.21; 0.13;0.26).

Layout

Inscribed on front face in correspondence with each compartment.

Letters

0.03 to 0.042; alpha with low bar, open omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Later recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at the same place.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 221 (no image).

Text

[---] ω : Ἑκάτ[ας]

Apparatus

1 [---] ω : SECir  [Κωρήτ?]ω

French translation

(Autels de)  [---] os et d'Hécate.

English translation

(Altars of)  [---] os and of Hekate.

Italian translation

(Altari di)  [---] os e di Ecate.

Commentary

The name of the first deity is not easy to guess; Ἱατρῶ or Πυθίω would fit, but it is too hazardous to restore them with only the final letter, inasmuch that there is no other instance of any of them on such altars. Nevertheless, the restoration tentatively suggested by Morelli is grammatically impossible.

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