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 pleiades; HGL : 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 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 , n. 1 (fig. 17).
Apparatus
a.1 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 Εὐμε̣ν̣[ί](δων) : 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 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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