Support: White marble altar with cornice and moulding on top, broken off at both upper angles above cornice (total w: 0.495 × h: 1.10 × d: 0.30; under cornice w: 0.40 × h: 0.70 × d: 0.28).

Layout: Inscribed just under cornice.

Letters: 0.025.

Date: Second half of fourth to first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, under the vestibule of the Byzantine Baths.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in the vestibule of the Byzantine Baths.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel) du Kourète.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of the Curete.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) del Curete.

Commentary

This deity, a single Curete, is also attested at Thera, whereas elsewhere the Curetes are always a group.

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr019500 Dedication to the Curete

Fig. 2. Face of igcyr019500 Dedication to the Curete

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