Dedication to Paean

IGCyr103400

Trismegistos ID: 738553

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar with traces of reddish painting on top, broken off at right (0.32; 0.37;0.39).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.025; pi with short right stroke, slanting sigma, smaller omicron.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably third century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo , East of the Wall of Nicodamos .

Later recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 231 (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 1993 , p. 35, whence SEG , 43.1188.

Text

Παιᾶνος

Apparatus

1 Παιᾶνος : SECir  Πανός

French translation

(Autel de) Péan.

English translation

(Altar of) Paean.

Italian translation

(Altare di) Peana.

Commentary

About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800, IGCyr102900, IGCyr103000, IGCyr103200, IGCyr103300, IGCyr103430) see Luni, 2014 , p. 141.

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