Dedication to Demeter

IGCyr066000

Trismegistos ID: 738346

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar (0.32; -;0.17 the altar being half buried, the height could not be measured).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.07.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1918 at Massah (ancient Artamis): along the road leading from the spring under the acropolis to the Wadi Oumgebeb.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 , p. 44, n. 23, fig. 38 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG , 20.753.

Text

Δάματρος.

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) de Déméter.

English translation

(Altar) of Demeter.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Demetra.

Commentary

About the circumstances of the discovery, see Sillani, 2014 , p. 104.

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