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Dedication to Karneios and Opheles

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0033002
Trismegistos ID: 738135

Source description

Support: Double rock-cutaltar with two square compartments,the left one having a deeper hollow in the middle (w: 1.3).

Layout: Inscribed in front, below each compartment.

Letters: Deeply cut, crudely disposed letters.

Date: First half of the fifth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1918 in Massah ➚ (ancient Artamis): on bank of wadi Ommgebeb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by G. Oliverio before 1918 in Māssah. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961 pp. 45-47, n. 26 (ph.) (from †Oliverio's papers; with note by Pugliese Carratelli), whence SEG, 20.756; Dobias-Lalou 1970, pp. 248-249, n. 19; Dobias-Lalou 2000 pp. 216, 231, whence SEG, 50.1637; IGCyr 003300 ➚. Cf. Parisi Presicce 2007, p. 249, n. 18, whence SEG, 57.2001.

Text

Interpretive

a
Καρ(νείο̄)
b
Ὀφ(έλευς)

Diplomatic

a
ΚΑΡ
b
ΟΦ

Apparatus

a1+b1: Καρ(νειο̄) Ὀφ(έλευς) Dobias-Lalou 2000: Καρόφι Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, Parisi Presicce 2007 both following †Oliverio

French translation

a) (scil. Autel) de Kar(neios).

b) (scil. Autel) d'Oph(eles).

English translation

a) (scil. Altar) of Kar(neios).

b) (scil. Altar) of Oph(eles).

Italian translation

a) (scil. Altare) di Kar(neios).

b) (scil. Altare) di Oph(eles).

Commentary

About the circumstances of the discovery, see Sillani 2014, p. 104.

Oliverio's reading as one word Καροφι is questionable for the extreme scarcity of plural datives in -φι and mainly because a divine name *κᾶρες (or rather *κᾶροι) does not exist. Two abbreviated names, each corresponding to one compartment would be a better solution. The vertical stroke at the right end does not seem to be a iota, but a limit for the inscribed field.

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