Support
Rock-cut niche containing a single altar (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed at three places: a) on rear wall, above the altar; b) on the rock at the right side of the niche; c) on the rock below the niche, under the altar; a) is partly hidden by a bush.
Letters
Dimensions of letters not registered; for eta, see commentary.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps first half of 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. 12, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.334.
b.1 Εὐ(μενίδων) : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography Εὐ[μενί?](δων)
(Autel) des Euménides.
(Autel) des Euménides.
(Autel) des Héros.
(Altar) of the Eumenides.
(Altar) of the Eumenides.
(Altar) of the Heroes.
(Altare) delle Eumenidi.
(Altare) delle Eumenidi.
(Altare) degli Eroi.
Ferri in his drawing gives a 'closed' eta. C. Dobias-Lalou is sceptical about that shape.
This is one among the series of altars dedicated to the Eumenides at Ain Hofra and also at other places outside the city walls of Cyrene.
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