Dedication

IGCyr103120

Trismegistos ID: 738545

Source Description

Support

Limestone altar with two compartments; middle part of front face broken away (0.27; 0.25;0.535).

Layout

Inscribed on front face.

Letters

0.015 to 0.03; smaller mu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Admittedly Hellenistic (monument-type)

Findspot

Found before 1960 at Cyrene , in the so called Agora of the Gods .

Last recorded Location

Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir , 223 (no image); cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 , p. 498.

Text

Εὐτιμία

Apparatus

French translation

Eutimia.

English translation

Eutimia.

Italian translation

Eutimia.

Commentary

Morelli's reading is puzzling both because of the nominative instead of the usual genitive and of the oddity of the presumed divine name. No other altar in the Sanctuary of Apollo is dedicated to an abstract entity considered a deity. Even Panakeia has a 'personal' flare, being said daughter of Asklepios. The only similar case would be the altar of Eunomia on the Agora (IGCyr083800), the placement of which seems to be more easy to explain in relation with the political life.

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