Dedication

IGCyr031300

Trismegistos ID: 738306

Source Description

Support

Shallow niche cut in the rock; an altar was probably cut below, but is no longer visible (dimensions not registered).

Layout

Inscribed on the back wall in two lines (at line 1 width 0.35).

Letters

Height not registered; finely cut, but irregular in dimensions; slantering mu and sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : Ain Hofra .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , n. 8, whence SEG , 9.329. Cf. Forbes, 1956 , whence SEG , 16.872; Lazzarini, 1998 , p. 312.

Text

Ἀριστάρχ[ω? Ζ]ηνὸς Μηλιχί[ω].

Apparatus

1 Ἀριστάρχ[ω?] : Ferri, 1923  Ἀ[ρ]ιστάρχ[ω?] : Forbes, 1956  Ἀ[ρ]ίσταρχ[os]

French translation

(Autel) de Zeus Mélikhios appartenant à Aristarkhos.

English translation

(Altar) of Zeus Melichios belonging to Aristarchos.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Zeus Melichios appartenente ad Aristarchos.

Commentary

We have probaly here, as in other such mentions, two genitives, one for the god to whom the altar was dedicated, the other one for the human worshipper. However, a nominative of the personal name, preferred by Forbes, would not be impossible.

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