Dedication to Zeus
IGCyr103200
Trismegistos ID: 738546
Source Description
Support
Altar with probably two or three compartments, now broken off at left and on top (1.13; 0.30;0.74).
Layout
Inscribed on front face in correspondence with the right compartment.
Letters
0.03; middle-size omicron, slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found by G. Oliverio in 1933 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo , East of the so-called Wall of Nicodamos .
Later recorded Location
Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 and again in 2010 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Bibliography
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 , 224 (no image).
Apparatus
1 Ζ̣ηνός : 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 Ζηνός
French translation
(Autel de) Zeus.
English translation
(Altar of) Zeus.
Italian translation
(Altare di) Zeus.
Commentary
About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr102800, IGCyr102900, IGCyr103000, IGCyr103300, IGCyr103400, IGCyr103430) see Luni, 2014 Luni, M., 2014, Attività di Carlo Anti, Luigi Pernier e Gaspare Oliverio (1923-1938), in M. Luni (ed.), La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi, 1913-2013, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Cirene Atene d'Africa8, Roma, 123-156 - see in bibliography , p. 141.
No name can be now read at left, but there were probably other deities to whom the altar was dedicated.
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