Support
Limestone altar with compartment(s) (0.41; 0.15;0.36).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.04.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Admittedly Hellenistic (monument-type)
Findspot
Found before 1960 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team
Text constituted from
Editor's transcription.
Morelli in SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 222 (no image).
1 (Morelli suggested the reading Εὐ̣μ̣(ενίδων) with abbreviation.)
Intraduisible.
Not usefully translatable.
Intraducibile.
Morelli's reading might be accepted if we had any idea of the place where he saw the inscription. His mention 'simile alle precedenti' seems to refer to the material and shape of the altar, not to its place, as the preceding ones in his publication where seen in the Museum and at different places in the sanctuary of Apollo. Many rock-cut altars dedicated to the Eumenides are indeed to be found, at different places which are all outside the city-walls. The present item should remained unexplained until it may be traced and studied again.
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