Name and probably dedication

IGCyr116000

Trismegistos ID: 738711

Source Description

Support

Two rock-cut altars of the type eschara (dimensions not registered).

Layout

Inscribed on front face below the escharai.

Letters

Height unknown; small delta and omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene : Southern private sacred zone East , opposite 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. 269 et fig. 14.1.2 and 4, whence SEG , 61.1555.B.7. Cf. Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 , pp. 190-195.

Text

Ῥοδίππω

Apparatus

French translation

(Autel) de Rhodippos.

English translation

(Altar) of Rhodippos.

Italian translation

(Altare) di Rhodippos.

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.

The name Ῥόδιππος is new for Cyrenaica but well attested at Rhodes.

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