Support: Limestone altar with two compartments (w: 0.34 × h: 0.10 × d: 0.605).

Layout: Inscribed on front face, which is the shorter one.

Letters: 0.025 to 0.03.

Date: Perhaps second half of fifth century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Presumably found between 1929 and 1930 at Cyrene ➚: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, in the so called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

(scil. Courète?) de Crète.

English translation

Cretan (scil. Curete?).

Italian translation

(scil. Curete?) di Creta.

Commentary

We retain dubiously Morelli's reading and interpretation as a misspelling of Κρητικός known for the Cretan Curete at IGCyr019600². However the ethnic alone would remain puzzling. Was the god's name cut on another face and now lost? This idea would be strengthened if we could check the lettering and suppose that the writer was a beginner in Ionian script, still using epsilon in the first syllable and confusing kappa and chi. We give arbitrarily a date on that assumption.

About the excavations in that part of the Sanctuary, see Parisi Presicce 2007 and now also Luni 2014, pp. 129, 133.

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