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Dedication to Zeus Eri(nymenos?) and Hermes Dolios

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0014002
Trismegistos ID: 738111

Source description

Support: Limestone altar with three compartments (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed below left (a) and central (b) compartments.

Letters: Eta for aspirate, archaic lambda.

Date: End of the sixth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1935 at Cyrene ➚, while building the new portion of the Road: Cyrene to Apollonia, just outside the city wall.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Bibliography

SECir, 154; Dobias-Lalou 1970, pp. 241, 244-245, n. 8, whence SEG, 37.1673; Dobias-Lalou 1987, p. 89; Bevilacqua 2009, pp. 240-244; IGCyr 001400 ➚.

Text

Interpretive

a
το͂ Ζε̄(νός)
το͂ Ἐρι(νυμένō?)
b
το͂ hερμᾶ
το͂ Δολίō

Diplomatic

a
ΤΟΖΕ̄
ΤΟΕΡΙ
b
ΤΟHΕΡΜΑ
ΤΟΔΟΛΙŌ

Apparatus

a.1: το͂ Ζε̄(νός) SECir Pugliese ⸢τόδε⸣ SECir
a.2: Ἐρι(νυμένō) Dobias-Lalou 1987: Ἐρι(ōνίō) SECir Pugliese
a.1+b.1: τόζε το͂ hερμᾶ Bevilacqua 2009 read horizontally
a.2+b.2: το͂ ἐρι(ουνίō), το͂ δολίō Bevilacqua 2009 read horizontally

French translation

a: (scil. Autel) de Zeus Éri(nyménos?).

b: (scil. Autel) d'Hermès Dolios.

English translation

a: (scil. Altar) of Zeus Eri(nymenos?).

b: (scil. Altar) of Hermes Dolios.

Italian translation

a: (scil. Altare) di Zeus Eri(nymenos?).

b: (scil. Altare) di Hermes Dolios.

Commentary

At a.1 τόζε, supposed by Pugliese Carratelli to be a variant of τόδε does not match the dialect (see Dobias-Lalou 2000, pp. 55-58).

At a.2:Ἐριούνιος is known for Hermes but never for Zeus. That is Bevilacqua's main argument for neglecting the vertical stroke dividing the inscription and to read our lines a.1 and b.1 together. However, this vertical stroke is in exact correspondance with the limit between the left and the central compartments of the altar. That is why Dobias-Lalou proposed an abbreviation of Ἐρινύμενος, a supposed epithet of Zeus passed on with slight corruption into Hesychius' Ἐλινύμενος· Ζεὺς ἐν Κυρήνῃ, which has no etymology.

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