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 , 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 , 227 (no image); cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 , p.498.

Text

  ← [Κυρ]άνα

Apparatus

1 [Κυρ]άνα : SECir  [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 and now also Luni, 2014 , pp. 129, 133.

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