Support: Probably an altar cut in the rock, perhaps inside a niche (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the rock in two lines.

Letters: Dimensions of the letters unknown; not well aligned letters, owing to the irregular surface; dissymmetrical nu.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

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

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autel) appartenant à Kleugénès fils de Spondarkhos (ou: à Kleugénès et Spondarkhos).

English translation

(scil. Altar) belonging to Kleugenes son of Spondarchos (or :to Kleugenes and Spondarchos).

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) appartenente a Kleugenes figlio di Spondarchos (o: a Kleugenes e Spondarchos).

Commentary

The support is supposed to be an altar because the inscription was copied by Ferri amongst a series (see IGCyr030900² and following). In that series personal names followed by father's names are rare, so that there is also a possibility that two different men were here mentioned with only their own names.

Σπονδάρχω is most probably a personal name (also attested in IGCyr097100², fragment a, l. 15); Ferri also favoured this hypothesis, although no parallel existed yet for the name. Hondius at SEG, 9.344, preferred a name of religious office, which is hitherto not attested in Cyrenaica and rather not plausible in an area of personal and no civic cults.

Kleugenes, restored by Reynolds, is a better guess than Ferri's Eugenes, the latter being isolated in Cyrenaica, whereas the former is most common.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr032800 Owner's mark

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