Description: Marble base moulded on three sides
(w:
0.66 x h:
0.25 x d:
0.37).
Text: Inscribed on the front face.
Letters: First century CE: 0.035.
Date: First century CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Spring of Kura/Cave of the Nymphs, in one of the entrances to a rock-cut chamber beside the cave;
found probably in 1933.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Editors
For Apollo Nymphagetes and the Nymphs
Commentary
Laronde, loc.cit., dates this text to the second century BCE
For Apollo as Nymphagetes/Nymphegetes elsewhere, see e.g. Thasos, IG XII,8 358 (at PHI 79549) and regularly at Samos, e.g. BCH IV (1880) 335 (at PHI 254612)
Bibliography: Mentioned by Stucchi, 1975, 591 n. 1; republished by Laronde, 1987, 426-27 and fig. 162, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1012, SEG 38.1900.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Joyce Reynolds VI.25)
Fig. 2. Face (Joyce Reynolds XIII.47)