Support: Limestone altar of the type with one compartment, which is completely worn out (w: 0.34 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.34).

Layout: Inscribed on front face, just under what is now the upper edge.

Letters: 0.04; slanting sigma.

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

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 at findspot, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel d')Hécate.

English translation

(scil. Altar of) Hekate.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare di) Ecate.

Commentary

About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800², IGCyr103000², IGCyr103200², IGCyr103300², IGCyr103400², IGCyr103430²) see Parisi Presicce 1990 and now also Luni 2014, p. 141.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr102900 Dedication to Hecate

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