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 pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1982 by C. Dobias-Lalou in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (CDL).
Fabbricotti, 2007 Fabbricotti, E., 2007, Arulette da Cirene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 267-302 - see in bibliography , p. 280, n. 13, fig. 12, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2008.601, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2017, 4.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography Ἐτέα[ρχος] : Fabbricotti, 2007 Fabbricotti, E., 2007, Arulette da Cirene, in L. Gasperini, S. Marengo (eds.), Cirene e la Cirenaica nell'antichità: atti del convegno internazionale di studi, Roma-Frascati, 18-21 dicembre 1996, Ichnia9, Tivoli, 267-302 - see in bibliography Ἐτεα[---] .
Étéarkhos [---] .
Etearchos [---] .
Etearchos [---] .
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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