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Dedication to Demeter

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0660002
Trismegistos ID: 738346

Source description

Support: Limestone altar (w: 0.32 × d: 0.17 the altar being half buried, the height could not be measured).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.07.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1918 at Massah (ancient Artamis): along the road leading from the spring under the acropolis to the Wadi Oumgebeb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, p. 44, n. 23, fig. 38 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG, 20.753; IGCyr 066000 .

Text

Interpretive

Δάματρος.

Diplomatic

ΔΑΜΑΤΡΟΣ

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Déméter.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Demeter.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Demetra.

Commentary

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

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