Dedication to the Eumenides or caption (?)
IGCyr133700
Trismegistos ID: 738884
Source Description
Support
Fine limestone stele, chipped off on the upper edge at right (0.56; 0.28;0.09-0.11), thicker at right, fitting exactly a rectangular hollow near which it was found, just to the left of the rock-cut altar bearing IGCyr133600.
Layout
Inscribed in one line just under the upper edge.
Letters
Average 0.03, carefully cut, with very small serifs; slightly slanting mu, probably dissymmetrical nu.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably 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. 5 (fig. 21).
Apparatus
French translation
Euménide(s) [---?] .
English translation
Eumenide(s) [---?] .
Italian translation
Eumenide(/i) [---?] .
Commentary
This object is unique and the lack of the name end does not help to determine its function. Although standing at a fixed place amongst altars dedicated to the Eumenides (once at least one Eumenide IGCyr133800) it cannot support, like them, offerings. If considered nonetheless as a dedication, the formula should be completed as a dative. On the other hand, as E. Rosamilia puts it, it might also be a caption for an aniconic figure of the deity (or deities). C. Dobias-Lalou adds that it might also be a sort of sign-post for the whole area of altars. Be it what it is, the reason for the stele to be movable is not clear.
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