Support: Left block of a limestone altar with mouldings on top of front face and below on front, left and back, because the block was either recut at right or adjacent with a symmetric block at right (w: 0.295 × h: 0.48 × d: 0.345).

Layout: Inscribed on front face under the moulding (w: 0.26 × h: 0.265 × d: 0.27); the altar was later inscribed again with IGCyr103315².

Letters: 0.04 to 0.06; deeply cut right to left; alpha with low bar, disymmetrical nu.

Date: End of sixth or beginning of fifth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene ➚: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, West of Strategeion, 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. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1977 in situ.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Cyrène.

English translation

Cyrene.

Italian translation

Cirene.

Commentary

Although the genitive of the god's name is more common than the nominative on such altars, we consider that both formulas express a form of dedication to the deity.

About the excavations in that part of the Sanctuary, see Parisi Presicce 2007 and now also Luni 2014, pp. 129, 133.

The script shows clearly that this mention was inscribed earlier than IGCyr103315² (contra Morelli); for that re-use (or later on) the block was cut at right.

This inscription was erroneously collected twice in the first edition; the other entry, under number IGCyr0066500, has now been deleted.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr103310 Dedication to Cyrene

Fig. 2. Squeeze of igcyr103310 Dedication to Cyrene

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