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IGCyr031500

Trismegistos ID: 738308

Source Description

Support

Probably an altar in a niche cut in the rock (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed, probably above the altar.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Unknown

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : Ain Hofra .

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , n. 15a, whence SEG , 9.331.

Text

[Μη]λι[χίω].

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) de Mélikhios.

English translation

(Altar) of Melichios.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Melichios.

Commentary

Ferri's restoration is plausible in view of the surrounding inscriptions. C. Dobias-Lalou could not find the inscription.

About the use of the epithet Melichios without the god's name (Zeus), see IGCyr134300.

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