Support
A large and shallow rock-cut niche containing an altar with several compartments; in the back wall, two smaller niches, one of them square in shape, have been cut (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed on the back wall in three parts: a) on top, b) at left near the smaller niche, c) at right under the square niche (width 0.45).
Letters
Height not registered.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , n. 10, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.330. Cf. Lazzarini, 1998 Lazzarini, M.L., 1998, Zeus Meilichios e le Eumenidi: alcune considerazioni, in E. Catani, S.M. Marengo (eds.), La Cirenaica in età antica: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Macerata, 18-20 Maggio 1995, Ichnia1, Pisa-Roma, 311-317 - see in bibliography , p. 312.
a.2 Ζεύ[ξ]ιος : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , - see in bibliography Ζεύ[ξιδ?]ος
Appartenant à Arist[---] fils de Zeuxis.
(Autel) des Euménides.
(Autel)de Zeus.
Belonging to Arist[---] son of Zeuxis.
(Altar) of the Eumenides.
(Altar) of Zeus
Appartenente ad Arist[---] figlio di Zeuxis.
(Altare) delle Eumenidi.
(Altare) di Zeus.
The three inscription on this wall are probably belonging together, but were cut separately and are not related syntactically, a) giving the name of the whorshipper, b) and c) indicating the spaces devoted respectively to the Eumenides and to Zeus.
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