Les objects sacrés du sanctuaire d'Apollon à Cyrène dans les journaux de fouille de Luigi Pernier tenus de 1925 à 1936

Careful “excavation” work in the private archives of Luigi Pernier (1874-1937), kept in the University of Macerata, has unearthed a great deal of information about archaeological commemorative items and finds brought to light by the Italian archaeologist during the major excavation works on the Sanctuary of Apollo at Cyrene between 1925 and 1936. Here, a selection of such commemorative items and archaeological finds relating to the religion and cults practised in the famous sanctuary at Cyrene, are presented. They relate to its near thousand-year history. They are, for the most part, votive offerings, small altars, religious objects, sculpted furnishings and simple manufactured items – sometimes bearing neat votive dedications in Greek – meticulously described in Pernier’s “excavation notebooks” but largely unknown, up to the present, to the majority of academics working on Cyrene. The documents and graphics in this work are particularly useful for an accurate reconstruction of the original archaeological context of the small Carneades Naiskos in the Temple of Apollo and the so-called “Rock Sanctuary” with its votive altars dedicated to various gods which were discovered and excavated by Pernier in the Sanctuary at Cyrene.