<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr021700 738240 igcyr021700 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr021700

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Limestone altar with one compartment, adjacent and similar to IGCyr021600 ( 0.56 0.34 0.56 ).

 Inscribed on front face. 0.025; slanting sigma. Findspot. Perhaps fourth century B.C.

Found before 1923 at Cyrene: under vestibule of Byzantine Baths, which was formerly an area belonging to the so-called Agora of the Gods.

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.

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Bibliography

, p. 9, n. 8b (no image), whence SEG, 9.138 ; published again Morelli, SECir, 230 (no image), as if unpublished.

Text Ζηνός.
Apparatus

Ζηνός Πανός

Autel de Zeus.

Altar of Zeus.

Altare di Zeus.

Commentary

Known through a simple mention by Ferri, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the region that Ferri for the first time called 'agorà degli dei' on the same line as the Theran one. Neither illustration nor dimensions were given then.

Morelli in SECir, 230 gave no illustration, but from the localisation, dimensions and similarity with IGCyr021600. Dobias-Lalou was able to identify the stone but could provide no useful image.

Morelli's different reading is due to the bad condition of the stone, worn out and covered by concretion; moreover the god's name proposed by him has hitherto no parallel in Cyrenaica, whereas most mentioned deities are worshipped on several similar altars.