Support: In a rock-cut niche containing an altar with two compartments (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed on the back wall, above the altar.

Letters: Height not registered; irregular letters, dissymmetrical nu, slantering sigma.

Date: Perhaps fifth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: Ain Hofra.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 at Ain Hofra.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Zeus.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Zeus.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Zeus.

Commentary

Ferri's drawing is misleading, the sigma is not so strange as he drew it. Furthermore his epsilon, drawn with a small superfluous vertical stroke at the upper right angle, lead to a misinterpretation into an eta in SEG.

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr031000 Dedication to Zeus

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr031000 Dedication to Zeus

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