Support: Limestone altar with compartment, adjacent and similar to IGCyr021700² (w: 0.56 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.56).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.025-0.03; sigma taller than other letters.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (context).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: under vestibule of Byzantine Baths, which was formerly an area belonging to the so-called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autel) d'Hestia.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Hestia.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Estia.

Commentary

Known through a simple mention by Ferri, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'. Neither illustration nor dimensions were given then.

Morelli in SECir, 218 gave no illustration, but from localisation, dimensions and similarity with IGCyr021700², Dobias-Lalou could trace the stone, although she was unable to provide any useful image for IGCyr. See also Dobias-Lalou 2020.

Morelli's different reading is due to the bad condition of the stone, worn out and covered by concretion. The first sigma being clear, Ferri's reading seems the better one.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr021600 Dedication

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