Dedication to Melichios and one Eumenide
IGCyr133400
Trismegistos ID: 738881
Source Description
Support
A rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Inscribed in one line on top of the rear wall, which is broken off at left and worn out at right.
Letters
0.035; slightly slanting mu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably last quarter of the fourth or first half of the third 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. 2 (fig. 18).
Apparatus
French translation
Pour l'Euménide, pour Mèlikhios.
English translation
For the Eumenide, for Melichios.
Italian translation
Per l'Eumenide, per Melichios.
Commentary
Zeus Melichios is here named only with his epithet. However there is no reason to think that this became a divine name by itself.
The use of the dative is unique on such altars. Only this mention deserves fully to be said 'dedication', a term which we took conventionally for the many other instances with the genitive.
For a Eumenide at the singular see also IGCyr133800.
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