Support: Limestone altar with two compartments (the right one broken off); left part of front side now missing (w: 0.48 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.33).

Layout: Inscribed; written in correspondance with both compartments.

Letters: 0.035; smaller circular letters, asymetric nu.

Date: Late fifth or early fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel) d'Apollon.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Apollo.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Apollo.

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.

With help of ancient photographs, Pugliese Carratelli and Morelli (SECir) were able in 1960 to identify the altar and added description and dimensions.

When seen by Dobias-Lalou (1982), the stone, already broken on the photograph, had lost its left part.

The use of omega shows that the inscription cannot be older than the end of the fifth century BC.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr022000 Dedication to Apollo

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