Dedication to Cyrene
IGCyr103310
Trismegistos ID: 738549
Source Description
Support
Left block of a limestone altar with mouldings on top of front face and below on front, left and back, because the block was either recut at right or adjacent with a symmetric block at right (0.295; 0.48;0.345).
Layout
Inscribed on front face under the moulding (0.26; 0.265;0.27); the altar was later inscribed again with IGCyr103315.
Letters
0.04 to 0.06; deeply cut right to left; alpha with low bar, disymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of sixth or beginning of fifth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL , West of Strategeion , so called Agora of the Gods .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 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 , 227 (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.
Apparatus
1 [Κυρ]άνα : 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 [Κυρ?]άνα
French translation
Cyrène.
English translation
Cyrene.
Italian translation
Cirene.
Commentary
Although the genitive of the god's name is more common than the nominative on such altars, we consider that both formulas express a form of dedication to the deity.
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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