Support
Rock-cut altar with three compartments, each in a niche (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in the rock above two niches.
Letters
0.09; 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, opposite 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. 14.1.8 and fig. 8, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1555.B.1 and SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1555.B.2. 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.
Antipatros (ou) d'Antipatros.
Antipatros (or ) belonging to Antipatros.
Antipatros (o) di Antipatros.
One of the series of personal names inscribed above altars rock-cut in niches; the 'owner' of the altar(s) engraved his name, but we do not know the deity to whom offerings were laid down.
Neither do we know whether the personal name was written at the nominative or genitive case.
Paci's description was misinterpreted in SEG, producing two similar items. The name Ἀντίπα[τρος] is engraved only once across two niches.
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