Dedication (?)

IGCyr022200

Trismegistos ID: 738245

Source Description

Support

Square altar with one compartment on top, apparently smoothened only on front; material unknown, dimensions unknown.

Layout

Inscribed.

Letters

Tall letters, as shown from the drawing.

Place of Origin

Cyrene .

Date

Fourth to third century B.C. (context)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : under Southern part of Byzantine Baths .

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , p. 10, n. 8g (dr.) , whence SEG , 9.145.

Text

ΧΡΗΣ

Apparatus

1 Ferri, 1923  Χρησι

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

لا يمكن ترجمته بشكل جيد.

Commentary

Known from Ferri, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei', as the drawing clearly shows; no dimensions given.

The first four letters might date from fourth century B.C. on; on the right, the drawing shows a serpentine line interpreted by Ferri as an iota, which would be an archaic ductus, quite out of date.

As for the meaning, a god's name would be predictable, but Ferri's idea of «una divinità, o almeno un appellativo, locale» is not conclusive.

Such altars sometimes have an owner's name, but this cannot be pushed either.

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