Dedication (?)

IGCyr020600

Trismegistos ID: 106103

Source Description

Support

Little altar slighlty cut off on top, material unknown (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Unknown

Findspot

Found in 1928 at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo , N-W of the Altar of Artemis .

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio, 1929 , p. 132, n. 9, whence SEG , 9.119.

Text

Νίκιο[ς].

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) de Nikis.

English translation

(Altar) of Nikis.

French translation

(Altare) di Nikis.

Commentary

If this block is really an altar, it bears no god's name but the owner's name.

The stone seems to be now lost. Oliverio gave neither clue for the date nor photograph, so that a date in the third or second century B.C. given in SEG , 9.119 is groundless.

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