Dedications to the Eumenides

IGCyr064800

Trismegistos ID: 738339

Source Description

Support

Second from right out of four rock-cut altars (see also IGCyr064600, IGCyr064900); this one with two compartments (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the front below the compartments.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (context)

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

Transcribed froms previous editor.

Bibliography

From †Oliverio's papers Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 , p. 29, n. 9.3, fig. 18, and Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique , 1962.363, whence SEG , 20.723, c.

Text

Εὐμε(νίδων) Κλη(- - -)

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) des Euménides. Klè(- - -).

English translation

(Altar) of the Eumenides. Kle(- - -).

Italian translation

(Altare) delle Eumenidi. Kle(- - -).

Commentary

For the context, see commentary at IGCyr064600.

Κλη was not explained either by †Oliverio nor by Pugliese Carratelli. It is probably the abbreviated name of the owner of this 'private' altar.

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