Dedication to the Curete
IGCyr103300
Trismegistos ID: 738548
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with a square compartment on top and a small projecting moulding below the upper edge (0.45; 0.35;0.44).
Layout
Inscribed on front face (0.42;), at 0.04 under the moulding.
Letters
0.03; non-slanting sigma, smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably third century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, East of the Wall of Nicodamos .
Later recorded Location
een 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
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 , 226 (no image).
Apparatus
French translation
(Autel du) Courète.
English translation
(Altar of the) Curete.
Italian translation
(Altare del) Curete.
Commentary
About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800, IGCyr102900, IGCyr103000, IGCyr103200, IGCyr103400, IGCyr103430) see 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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