Support: Limestone altar with two compartments, inscribed on the fore-rim of each (total w: 1.32 × h: 1.22 × d: 0.78; inscribed zone w: 0.89 × h: 0.085).

Layout: Inscribed, each inscription corresponding to a compartment.

Letters: 0.03.

Date: Second half of fourth to first half of third century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: under the vestibule of the Byzantine Baths.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in the vesistuble of the Byzantine Baths.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel d')Aphrodite.

(scil. Autel de) Cyrène, du Kourète.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare di) Afrodite.

(scil. Altare di) Cirene, del Curete.

Commentary

The left compartment was intended only for Aphrodite, whereas the right one was used both for Cyrene and for the Curete.

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Fig. 3. Squeeze of igcyr019800-b Dedication to (Aphrodite), Cyrene and Curete

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