Support: Limestone altar with 3 very shallow compartments (overall w: 1.21 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.45; compartments from left to right: w: 0.32 × d: 0.37, w: 0.34 × d: 0.37, w: 0.33 × d: 0.37).

Layout: Inscribed on front face under the upper edge, in correspondence with each compartment.

Letters: 0.03; small omicron, very short right stroke of pi, slanting sigma, small and flat loop of phi.

Date: End of fourth or beginning of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1933 by G. Oliverio at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, East of the Wall of Nicodamos.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 at findspot, in the Eastern part of the Sanctuary of Apollo. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2001 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autels d') Apollon, de Panakeia, d'Aphrodite.

English translation

(scil. Altars of) Apollo, of Panakeia, of Aphrodite.

Italian translation

(scil. Altari di) Apollo, di Panakeia, di Afrodite.

Commentary

About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102900², IGCyr103000², IGCyr103200², IGCyr103300², IGCyr103400², IGCyr103430²) see Parisi Presicce 1990 and now also Luni 2014, p. 141.

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Fig. 1. Left part of igcyr102800 Dedication to Apollo and others

Fig. 2. Right part of igcyr102800 Dedication toApollo and others

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