Dedication
IGCyr103210
Trismegistos ID: 738547
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with two compartments (0.34; 0.10;0.605).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, which is the shorter one.
Letters
0.025 to 0.03.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second half of fifth century B.C. (lettering, context)
Findspot
Found between 1929 and 1930 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the so called Agora of the Gods .
Last recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Present Location
Not seen 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 , 225 (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 , p. 498.
Text
Apparatus
French translation
(Courète) de Crète.
English translation
Cretan (Curete).
Italian translation
(Curete) di Creta.
Commentary
We retain dubiously Morelli's reading and interpretation as a misspelling of Κρητικός known for the Cretan Curete at IGCyr019600. However the ethnic alone would remain puzzling. Was the god's name cut on another face and now lost? This idea would be strengthened if we could check the lettering and suppose that the writer was a beginner in Ionian script, still using epsilon in the first syllable and confusing kappa and chi. We give arbitrarily a date on that assumption.
About the excavations in that part of the Sanctuary, see 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 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 , pp. 129, 133.
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