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
Date
Fourth to third century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found before 1923 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : under Southern part of Byzantine Baths .
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , p. 10, n. 8g (dr.) , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.145.
Apparatus
1 Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography 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the right, the drawing shows a serpentine line interpreted by Ferri as an iota, which would be an archaic ductus, quite out of date.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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