Name, probably dedication

IGCyr115900

Trismegistos ID: 738710

Source Description

Support

Two rock-cut altars of the type escharai (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on front face below the compartments.

Letters

Height unknown; phi with large oval loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third or second century B.C. (context, lettering)

Findspot

Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene : 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).

Bibliography

Paci, 2011 , p. 268 and fig. 14.1.1, whence SEG , 61.1555.B.6. Cf. Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 , pp. 190-195.

Text

[Σ]τ̣εφάνω

Apparatus

1 [Σ]τ̣εφάνω : Paci, 2011  [---] εφάνω

French translation

(Autel) de Stephanos.

English translation

(Altar) of Stephanos.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Stephanos.

Commentary

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 known the deity to whom offerings were laid down.

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