Dedication to the Eumenides and perhaps Zeus
IGCyr133500
Trismegistos ID: 738882
Source Description
Support
A double rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments, one (a) complete at left, the other (b) at right broken off at the front part (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the front face below compartment a); textpart b) is supposed to have stood in the lost part below compartment b).
Letters
0.05; slightly slanting mu, upsilon with widely open oblique bars.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably last quarter of fourth or first half of 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. 3 (fig. 19).
Apparatus
French translation
a) (Autel) des Euménides.
b) [Autel de Zeus?].
English translation
a) (Altar) of the Eumenides.
b) [Altar of Zeus?].
Italian translation
a) (Altare) delle Eumenidi.
b) [Altare di Zeus?].
Commentary
E. Rosamilia suggested to restore Zeus' name at right only for reasons of symmetry and on behalf of other examples here and in other areas.
As for this abbreviation of the name of the Eumenides, there is a parallel at IGCyr031100.
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