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 : 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 , p. 9, n. 8b (no image), whence SEG , 9.139.

Text

Ζην̣ός.

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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