Support
First to the right of four rock-cut altars (see also IGCyr064600, IGCyr064800); dimensions unknown.
Layout
Inscribed on the front below the compartment.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found before 1938 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : 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.
From †Oliverio's papers Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , p. 29, n. 9.4, fig. 18, and Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique Robert, J. and L., Bulletin Épigraphique in Revue des Études Grecques (REG)1938-1984 - see in bibliography , 1962.363, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.723, d. Cf. Lazzarini, 1998 Lazzarini, M.L., 1998, Zeus Meilichios e le Eumenidi: alcune considerazioni, in E. Catani, S.M. Marengo (eds.), La Cirenaica in età antica: atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Macerata, 18-20 Maggio 1995, Ichnia1, Pisa-Roma, 311-317 - see in bibliography , p. 313
(Autel appartenant à) Lysis. (Autel) des Euménides. Courète. Mélikhios.
(Altar belonging to) Lysis. (Altar) of the Eumenides. Curete. Melichios.
(Altare appartenente a) Lysis. (Altare) delle Eumenidi. Curete. Melichios.
This is the most explicit of the series of nearby altars (see IGCyr064600 and IGCyr064800) and it helps to understand the abbreviated mentions on the others.
Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography suggested that Λύσιος was a divine name or epithet. However there is no example of such a divine name in Cyrenaica. Besides, such private altars often bear the owner's name, so that it seems more natural to consider this name as a personal name, all the more so as Lysis is very common in Cyrenaica.
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