Support
Probably an altar cut in the rock, perhaps inside a niche (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the rock in two lines.
Letters
Dimensions of the letters unknown; not well aligned letters, owing to the irregular surface; dissymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Present Location
Not found.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography , n. 18, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.344. 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.
1 Fraser-Matthews, 1987 Fraser, P.M., Matthews, E. (eds.), 1987, Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, I: The Aegean Islands, Cyprus, Cyrenaica, Oxford - see in bibliography [Κλε]υ̣γένευ[ς] (p. 263, Reynolds' reading) : Ferri, 1923 Ferri, S., 1923, Contributi di Cirene alla storia della religione greca, Roma - see in bibliography [Ε]ὐ̣γένευ[ς]
(Autel) appartenant à Kleugénès fils de Spondarkhos (ou: à Kleugénès et Spondarkhos).
(Altar) belonging to Kleugenes son of Spondarchos (or :to Kleugenes and Spondarchos).
(Altare) appartenente a Kleugenes figlio di Spondarchos (o: a Kleugenes e Spondarchos).
The support is supposed to be an altar because the inscription was copied by Ferri amongst a series (see IGCyr030900 and following). In that series personal names followed by father's names are rare, so that there is also a possibility that two different men were here mentioned with only their own names.
Σπονδάρχω is most probably a personal name (also attested in IGCyr097100, fragment a, l. 15); Ferri also favoured this hypothesis, although no parallel existed yet for the name. Hondius at SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.344, preferred a name of religious office, which is hitherto not attested in Cyrenaica and rather not plausible in an area of personal and no civic cults.
Kleugenes, restored by Reynolds, is a better guess than Ferri's Eugenes, the latter being isolated in Cyrenaica, whereas the former is most common.
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