Support: White marble console, broken into two adjacent pieces (w: 0.59 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.30).

Layout: Inscribed on the upper rim (w: 0.59 × h: 0.08).

Letters: 0.015; deeply cut, in letters pressed together, slightly thickening at the ends; xi without vertical hasta, non-slanting sigma.

Date: Between 220 and 180 BC (Rosamilia) (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1926 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, N-W of the Temple of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 24. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

Kritola fille d'Alexis, lors de sa prêtrise commune avec Alexandros (scil. a consacré).

English translation

Kritola daughter of Alexis, while being priestess with Alexandros (scil. dedicated).

Italian translation

Kritola figlia di Alexis, mentre era sacerdotessa insieme a Alexandros (scil. ha dedicato).

Commentary

This woman was priestess of Artemis the same year as Alexandros, eponymous priest of Apollo. The formulation has been explained by Marengo 2007.

From the type of support and the place where it was found we may infer that it was a dedication; from the office of the dedicant, that it was for Artemis.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr020400 Dedication to Artemis (?)

Fig. 2. Left part of squeeze of igcyr020400 Dedication to Artemis (?)

Fig. 3. Right part of squeeze of igcyr020400 Dedication to Artemis (?)

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