Support
A double rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments (approximate dimensions estimated from photograph 0.905; 0.13;0.15); immediately to the left of IGCyr134000.
Layout
Inscribed on the front below the compartments on the whole width.
Letters
0.09; slanting sigma, middle-sized omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps second half of fifth or beginning of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the lower part of Wadi el Aish .
Last recorded Location
First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
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. 7 (fig. 22).
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 Ἀριστίππọ̄ : 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 Ἀρίστιππο̣[ς]
(Autel) d'Aristippos.
(Altar) of Aristippos.
(Altare) di Aristippos.
In this area there are some altars inscribed with a personal name, which should be that of the worshipper (IGCyr134400), like in the near Southern pivate sacred zone East and Southern private sacred zone West. There are also altars bearing divine names, such as IGCyr134000, which is just next to this one.
E. Rosamilia did not exclude the loss of one letter at the end, which would provide the nominative of the name. However he preferred to edit a complete name, thus at the genitive with an archaic spelling of long ο with omicron. This seems to be preferable because one supplementary letter would exceed the exact dimensions of the altar. If so, the inscription is one of the most ancient ones of the whole series of inscribed altars of the area.
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