Support: Limestone altar with cornice on top of three sides and one compartment on top (w: 0.42 × h: 0.53 × d: 0.44).

Layout: Inscribed on the rim of the right part (w: 0.39 × h: 0.08).

Letters: 0.05.

Date: Perhaps fourth to third century BC

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: South-Eastern part of Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in the second room right of vestibule in Byzantine Baths.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Zeus.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Zeus.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Zeus.

Commentary

Simply mentioned by Ferri without illustration or dimensions, this altar might be the one here described. Anyhow, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the so-called 'agorà degli dei'.

Only parts of two letters are readable. As they fit the name of Zeus and as the place is the one described by Ferri, C. Dobias-Lalou assumes that it is the altar mentioned by Ferri.

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