Owner's mark

IGCyr032500

Trismegistos ID: 738318

Source Description

Support

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

Layout

Inscribed on the rock.

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 by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Ferri, 1923 , n. 7, whence SEG , 9.341.

Text

Συρ[---] 

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, that of the owner of the altar. For similar mentions, see commentary at IGCyr032000. Amongst the personal names attested in Cyrenaica, there are only very rare instances of both Σύρος and Συρακόσιος. It would be hazardous to restore one of them here.

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