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 : 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 , 224 (no image).

Text

Ζ̣ηνός

Apparatus

1 Ζ̣ηνός : SECir  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 , 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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