Dedication (?)

IGCyr109610

Trismegistos ID: 738626

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 2984.

Support

Small-scale limestone altar with fluted column as base, surmounted by a capital broken at right (0.07; 0.115; -).

Layout

Inscribed on one side of the abacus of the capital (0.03; 0.019; -).

Letters

0.01

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably late second or early first century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found before 1982 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1982 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Fabbricotti, 2007 , p. 280, n. 13, fig. 12, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2008.601, whence SEG , 57.2017, 4.

Text

Ἐτέα[ρχος ---] 

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  Ἐτέα[ρχος] : Fabbricotti, 2007  Ἐτεα[---]  .

French translation

Étéarkhos  [---] .

English translation

Etearchos  [---] .

Italian translation

Etearchos  [---] .

Commentary

The few other small-scale altars bearing inscriptions have a divine name at the dative alone (IRCyr C.663) or with the name of a dedicant at the nominative (IRCyr C.495, IRCyr M.190, l. 2). Most of the present inscription being lost, we may suppose that Etearchos dedicated this one to an unknown deity.

It would not be inconceivable that a woman was the dedicant. However no feminine is known corresponding to the masculine name Etearchos.

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