Support
A rock-cut altar with a bothros at the bottom left (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed in the middle of the front face.
Letters
0.23, letters uneasy to interpret (see below).
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth or third century B.C. (lettering, context)
Findspot
Found in 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the lower part of the 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. 9 (fig. 23).
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 Ε̣Ξ̣ : 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 Π̣Ε̣
Intraduisible (voir commentaire).
Not usefully translatable (see commentary).
Intraducibile (vedi commento).
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد (انظر التعليق على النقش).
This inscription is very problematic. The identification of the letters is far from sure, as can be seen from the photograph. E. Rosamilia, who could only see it during a brief survey, tells that 'reading ΠΕ cannot be wholly excluded'. However he prefers ΕΞ and his reading has thus been registered here as more authoritative. In his view those letters, which might be the abbreviation of a personal name, are perhaps rather 'the abbreviation of the name of the deity or hero worshipped' here, and this on behalf of the same two letters cut beside the name of the Eumenides at IGCyr064600.
C. Dobias-Lalou' additional comment: there exist instances at Ain Hofra (IGCyr031100, IGCyr031300, IGCyr032400) of both the name of the Eumenides and the name of the 'owner' of the altar being cut side by side. The same would be possible here and at IGCyr064600. If the reading should be ΕΞ, the similarity does not prove any identity of person, for there are a lot of different personal names beginning with those letters. The same for ΠΕ.
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