Support
Rock-cut altar(s) with compartment(s) (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, below the compartment.
Letters
Height unknown; slightly dissymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third or second century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : along the road to Balagrae, next to the Eastern limit of the Southern temple precinct .
Later recorded Location
Observed by G. Paci in 2008 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (GP).
Paci, 2011 Paci, G., 2011, Nouveaux documents épigraphiques provenant du sanctuaire extra-urbain de Déméter à Cyrène, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2011, 258-273 - see in bibliography , p. 268 and fig. 13.4, 5, 6, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1555.A.1. Cf. Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 Gasparini, M., Rosamilia, E., 2016, I nuovi altari rupestri extraurbani dallo Uadi Belgadir e il culto di Zeus e delle Eumenidi, in V. Purcaro, O. Mei, Cirene greca e romana II, Monografie di archeologia libica, 44, Cirene Atene d'Africa9, 189-217 - see in bibliography , pp. 190-195.
a) [---] ènos fils de Philο [---] .
b) Intraduisible.
a) [---] enos son of Philο [---] .
b) Not usefully translatable.
a) [---] enos figlio di Philο [---] .
b) Intraducibile.
We edit Paci's reading, for whom line 1 might have a personal name followed by the father's name (or by the name of another person). The relation with the letters below is far from clear: perhaps the beginning of a third name.Those are, as elsewhere, personal names inscribed in front of rock-cut escharai , probably used for personal offerings of their owner or user to an unknown deity.
Dobias-Lalou' commentary: although this area does not seem to have divine names, they are also common on such altars, whereas fathers' names are quite uncommon. Another reading of line 1 might thus be [Ζ]ηνός. Φιλο [---] . Zeus and the Eumenides are the deities worshipped on similar altars in the vicinity (see IGCyr133300, IGCyr133400, IGCyr133500, IGCyr133600, IGCyr133700, IGCyr133800, IGCyr134000 and IGCyr134200).
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