Dedications to the Eumenides

IGCyr064600

Trismegistos ID: 738338

Source Description

Support

First to the left out of four rock-cut altars (see also IGCyr064800, IGCyr064900); dimensions unknown.

Layout

Inscribed on the front face below the altar.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found before 1938 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded; from the photograph it is obviously outside the city.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 , p. 29, n. 9.1 (from †Oliverio's papers), fig. 18, and Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1962.363, whence SEG , 20.723, a.

Text

ΕΞ Εὐ(μενίδων) Ε(ὐμενίδων).

Apparatus

French translation

EX. (Autel) des Euménides, des Euménides.

English translation

EX. (Altar) of the Eumenides, of the Eumenides.

Italian translation

EX. (Altare) delle Eumenidi, delle Eumenidi.

Commentary

The publication was given from the late Oliverio's papers, which contained a partial photograph of the four altars and transcriptions of the inscriptions.

As to the place of origin, the photograph shows clearly an open landscape outside the city, probably on the plateau. From the indication that 'there are other similar (sc. altars) on the street to Beida', it can only be inferred that it is not on that road, where precisely altars have been discovered (see IGCyr115100, IGCyr115200, IGCyr115300, IGCyr115400, IGCyr115500, IGCyr115600, IGCyr115800, IGCyr115900, IGCyr116000). The further discovery of IGCyr133900 to IGCyr134400 does not throw new light, although it might be tantalizing to identify their situation with the subaudible description of Oliverio.

It is impossible to check Oliverio's readings for this altar from the photograph, too dark in that part.

The meaning of l. 1 is quite unclear. One possibility would be an abbreviated form of the name of the owner, as it appears elswhere for such 'private' altars.

The development of the abbreviation at ll. 2 and 3 is inferred from the nearby altars, see IGCyr064800 and IGCyr064900. The same abbreviation with only two letters is a possible reading in IGCyr114000.

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