Dedication
IGCyr021800
Trismegistos ID: 738241
Source Description
Support
Limestone altar with cornice on top of three sides and one compartment on top (0.42; 0.53;0.44).
Layout
Inscribed on the rim of the right part (0.39; 0.08;).
Letters
0.05.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth to third century B.C.
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : South-Eastern part of Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in the second room right of vestibule in Byzantine Baths .
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 , 9.139.
Apparatus
French translation
(Autel) de Zeus.
English translation
(Altar) of Zeus.
Italian translation
(Altare) di Zeus.
Commentary
Simply mentioned by Ferri without illustration or dimensions, this altar might be the one here described. Anyhow, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'.
Only parts of two letters are readable. As they fit the name of Zeus and as the place is the one described by Ferri, C. Dobias-Lalou assumes that it is the altar mentioned by Ferri.
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