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Dedication to the Eumenides

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0648002
Trismegistos ID: 738339

Source description

Support: Second from right out of four rock-cut altars (see also IGCyr0646002, IGCyr0649002); this one with two compartments (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the front below the compartments.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (context).

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene: exact findspot unrecorded; from the photograph it is obviously outside the city.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcribed froms previous editor.

Bibliography

From †Oliverio's papers Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, p. 29, n. 9.3, fig. 18, and Robert, BE, 1962.363, whence SEG, 20.723, c; IGCyr 064800 .

Text

Interpretive

Εὐμε(νίδων) Κλη(- - -)

Diplomatic

ΕΥΜΕΚΛΗ

French translation

(scil. Autel) des Euménides. Klè(- - -).

English translation

(scil. Altar) of the Eumenides. Kle(- - -).

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) delle Eumenidi. Kle(- - -).

Commentary

For the context, see commentary at IGCyr0646002.

Κλη was not explained either by †Oliverio nor by Pugliese Carratelli. It is probably the abbreviated name of the owner of this 'private' altar.

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