Owner's mark

IGCyr032400

Trismegistos ID: 738317

Source Description

Support

Altar cut in the rock, inside a niche without top (width 0.97).

Layout

Inscribed on the rear wall, above the altar.

Letters

height not registered, but very irregular.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1923 at Cyrene : Ain Hofra .

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , n. 3, whence SEG , 9.340.

Text

Εὐγ̣α̣[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Commentary

This is probably, as Ferri thought, the beginning of a personal name, indicating the owner of the altar, as no divine name seems to begin with those letters. For other such mentions, see commentary at IGCyr032000.

This personal name might be restored either as Εὔγαμος, which is attested once at Rhodes in the second century B.C. and several times in various regions in the Late Empire, or better as Εὐγάμων, which is known for a poet having composed a Telegonia about 565 B.C. at Battos' court to honor the Battiad family. However, other derived names would also be possible.

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