Dedication to the Curete

IGCyr103315

Trismegistos ID: 738550

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 at left on the cavetto of the upper moulding (0.295; 0.065;0.345); the altar had been formerly inscribed with IGCyr103310.

Letters

0.04 to 0.05; lightly cut left to right; smaller omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene : West of the 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

Κωρ(ῆτος)

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel du) Kour(ète).

English translation

(Altar of the) Cur(ete).

Italian translation

(Altare del) Cur(ete).

Commentary

On this altar two deities were worshipped and possibly separately, as their names were inscribed on two different sides of the block.

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