Dedication to Zeus and the Eumenides

IGCyr133300

Trismegistos ID: 738880

Source Description

Support

A double rock-cut altar with two compartments, one (a) hollowed out to the right, the other shallow (b) to the left (dimensions unknown); the hollow of a was closed with a stone lid and contained miniature vases.

Layout

Inscribed on the West side in correspondence with each compartment, with a rough alignement.

Letters

0.05; slanting mu, upsilon without tail.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Probably first quarter of the fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found between 2008 and 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene : Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone , North-West of the Extra-Mural Temple of Demeter .

Last recorded Location

First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 , n. 1 (fig. 17).

Text

a
Ζηνό̣[ς]
b
Εὐμε̣ν̣[ί](δων)

Apparatus

a.1 Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016  Εὐμε̣ν̣[ί](δων) : Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016  Εὐμε̣ν̣[ί](δος)

French translation

a) (Autel) de Zeus.

b) (Autel) des Euménides.

English translation

a) (Altar) of Zeus.

b) (Altar) of the Eumenides.

Italian translation

a) (Altare) di Zeus.

b) (Altare) delle Eumenidi.

Commentary

The names of Zeus and the Eumenides are often cut together on the altars at Ain Hofra (for instance IGCyr030900). In most cases the Eumenides are mentioned as a group. However there is at least two instances of one Eumenide at the singular in IGCyr133400 and IGCyr133800, whence Rosamilia alternative reading.

Independently of the bad preservation of the rocky surface, the space available on the stone leads to restore a full mention for a) and an abbreviated one for b).

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