Support: Small fragment of a sandstone altar with two compartments, broken off at left and right and at back (w: 0.21 × h: 0.13 × d: 0.26).

Layout: Inscribed on front face in correspondence with each compartment.

Letters: 0.03 to 0.042; alpha with low bar, open omega.

Date: Probably fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, 521. Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 at the same place.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autels de) [---]os et d'Hécate.

English translation

(scil. Altars of) [---]os and of Hekate.

Italian translation

(scil. Altari di) [---]os e di Ecate.

Commentary

The name of the first deity is not easy to guess; Ἱατρῶ or Πυθίω would fit, but it is too hazardous to restore them with only the final letter, inasmuch that there is no other instance of any of them on such altars. Nevertheless, the restoration tentatively suggested by Morelli is grammatically impossible.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr103100 Dedication to Hecate and another deity

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr103100 Dedication to Hecate and another deity

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