Support
Rock-cut niche containing an altar with at least two compartments (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed on the rear wall, above the altar (width 0.43).
Letters
height not registered; deeply cut, all letters not on the same line and with different heights.
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. 6 bis, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.337. Cf. Forbes, 1956 Forbes, K., 1956, Some Cyrenean Dedications, Philologus100, 235-252 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 16.872; 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.
(Autel) des Héros.
(Altar) of the Heroes.
(Altare) degli Eroi.
To our knowledge, the heroes are worshipped only at Ain Hofra, see e.g. IGCyr032200, IGCyr032300.
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