Support: Fragmentary limestone altar with two compartments, broken off at left (w: 0.32 × h: 0.118 × d: 0.24).

Layout: Inscribed on front side.

Letters: 0.032.

Date: Perhaps fifth to fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: South-Eastern part of Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Apparatus

French translation

[---]a. Apoll(on).

English translation

[---]a. Apoll(o).

Italian translation

[---]a. Apoll(o).

Commentary

This belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'.

One name should have been inscribed in correspondence with each compartment.

The name on the left was probably that of a feminin deity; thus Apollo's name, here abbreviated, should also be expanded at the nominative.

Alternatively, the first name might be that of a rare masculine in -ας, such as Ἀρχαγέτας, and we should thus read Ἀπόλλ(ωνος). However this hypotheses seems to be less probable.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr021900 Dedication to Apollo and another deity

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