Support: Sandstone block worn out on all sides, probably an altar with compartment (w: 0.255 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.36).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines on front face.

Letters: Average 0.035; rho with large loop ending low on the vertical stroke, slanting sigma, widely open and low omega; letters deeply cut.

Date: Fourth or third century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found before 1932 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, so called 'Piazzale' in Oliverio's words.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 588. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Kourète Crétois.

English translation

Cretan Curete.

Italian translation

Curete Cretese.

Commentary

The lettering seems later than Oliverio thought («buona epoca»).

At l. 2 the two missing letters might have been cut on the right side of the stone.

This deity, a single Curete, attested many times in Cyrenaica, is also known at Thera, whereas elsewhere there are several Curetes.

The mention Κρητικός is also attested in IGCyr103410².

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Fig. 1. Squeeze of igcyr019600 Dedication to the Cretan Curete

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