Support: Limestone altar with only one compartment preserved (out of two or three) (w: 0.31 × h: 0.07 × d: 0.33).

Layout: Inscribed, probably on the front face.

Letters: 0.015 to 0.02.

Date: Third or second century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found in 1929 or 1930 at Cyrene ➚: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, West of the Strategeion, in the so-called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 at findspot, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

[Cyrè?]ne. (scil. Autel d') Aphrodite.

English translation

[Cyre?]ne. (scil. Altar of) Aphrodite.

Italian translation

[Cire?]ne. (scil. Altare di) Aphrodite.

Commentary

This was published by Morelli without illustration and only the printed layout informs us. The reading seems to be very uncertain and a nominative at line 1 would be very surprising. Such altars also bear names at the genitive of men who are whorshippers of the mentioned god. The shift in the layout might sustain this idea. So we cannot exclude a personal name ending with -ας. Moreover, as the alpha itself was unclear to Morelli, the whole remains very obscure.

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