Dedication
IGCyr021700
Trismegistos ID: 738240
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with one compartment, adjacent and similar to IGCyr021600 (0.56; 0.34;0.56).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.025; slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : under vestibule of Byzantine Baths , which was formerly an area belonging to the so-called Agora of the Gods .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 9, n. 8b (no image), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.138; published again Morelli, SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 230 (no image), as if unpublished.
Apparatus
1 Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography Ζηνός : SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography Πανός
French translation
(Autel) de Zeus.
English translation
(Altar) of Zeus.
Italian translation
(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 Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 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.
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