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 pleiades; HGL : 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).
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 , 221 (no image).
1 [---] ω : 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 [Κωρήτ?]ω
(Autels de) [---] os et d'Hécate.
(Altars of) [---] os and of Hekate.
(Altari di) [---] os e di Ecate.
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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