Dedication to Demeter

IGCyr066100

Trismegistos ID: 738347

Source Description

Support

On a rock on top of cliff (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the rock.

Letters

Deeply cut letters, 0.15.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1918 at Massah (ancient Artamis): Wadi Ommgebeb.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 , p. 44, n. 24, fig. 39 (from †Oliverio's papers), whence SEG , 20.754, a.

Text

Δαμ̣[άτ]ερος̣.

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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