Support: Limestone altar with a square compartment on top and a small projecting moulding below the upper edge (w: 0.45 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.44).

Layout: Inscribed on front face (w: 0.42), at 0.04 under the moulding.

Letters: 0.03; non-slanting sigma, smaller omicron.

Date: Probably 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 in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 in the Sanctuary of Apollo, at findspot.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel du) Courète.

English translation

(scil. Altar of the) Curete.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare del) Curete.

Commentary

About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800², IGCyr102900², IGCyr103000², IGCyr103200², IGCyr103400², IGCyr103430²) see Luni 2014, p. 141.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr103300 Dedication to the Courete

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