Dedication to the Eumenides

IGCyr031900

Trismegistos ID: 738312

Source Description

Support

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

Layout

Inscribed on the rock (width 0.49).

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : Ain Hofra .

Present Location

Not found.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , n. 16, whence SEG , 9.335.

Text

Εὐμενί(δων).

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) des Euménides.

English translation

(Altar) of the Eumenides.

Italian translation

(Altare) delle Eumenidi.

Commentary

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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