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Dedication to Apollo, Aphrodite, Hekata

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1028102
Trismegistos ID: 738538

Source description

Support: Limestone altar made of two adjacent blocks (a and b) with two compartments each; compartment 1 (block a, left) has been broken off and the compartment 4 (block b, right) is much worn out (w: 0.61 × h: 0.185 × d: 0.38 as from ed. princ., are obviously the dimensions of block b only).

Layout: Inscribed on the front face in correspondence with the compartments 1, 3 and 4, whereas the surface is too badly damaged to read anything relating to compartment 2.

Letters: Compartment 3 0.026; compartment 4 0.03.

Date: Perhaps second half of third or first half of second century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1929 or 1930 at Cyrene: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, West of the Strategeion, in the so-called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

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

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor and photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 215; IGCyr 102810 . Cf. Parisi Presicce 2007 and Luni 2014, pp. 129, 133 (circumstances of find).

Text

Interpretive

| Ἀπόλλōνο̣ς̣ [c. 8] | Ἀφροδίτας (vac. 2) Ἑκάτας

Diplomatic

| ΑΠΟΛΛŌΝ..[++++++++] | ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΑΣ    ΕΚΑΤΑΣ

Apparatus

1: Ἀπόλλōνο̣ς̣ [c. 8]: SECir block a was not mentioned nor transcribed by Morelli

French translation

(scil. Autels d') Apollon, de [---], d'Aphrodite, d'Hécate.

English translation

(scil. Altars of ) Apollo, of [---], of Aphrodite, of Hekate.

Italian translation

(scil. Altari di ) Apollo, di [---], di Afrodite, di Ecate.

Commentary

The photograph in SECir, 215, fig. 159 clearly shows two similar and adjoining blocks and allows to read at least the first name inscribed on block a.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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