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 pleiades; HGL : 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 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 , 231 (no image); Dobias-Lalou, 1993 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1993, Les dépenses engagées par les démiurges de Cyrène pour les cultes, Revue des Études Grecques (REG)106, 24-38 - see in bibliography , p. 35, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 43.1188.
Apparatus
1 Παιᾶνος : 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 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 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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