Support: Rock-cut altar(s) with compartment(s) (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on front face, below the compartment.

Letters: Height unknown; slightly dissymmetrical nu.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene ➚: along the road to Balagrae, next to the Eastern limit of the Southern temple precinct.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Observed by G. Paci in 2008 in situ, East of the Southern temple precinct. Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in situ.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (GP).

French translation

a) [---]ènos fils de Philο[---].

b) Intraduisible.

English translation

a) [---]enos son of Philο[---].

b) Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

a) [---]enos figlio di Philο[---].

b) Intraducibile.

Commentary

We edit Paci's reading, for whom line 1 might have a personal name followed by the father's name (or by the name of another person). The relation with the letters below is far from clear: perhaps the beginning of a third name. Those are, as elsewhere, personal names inscribed in front of rock-cut escharai, probably used for personal offerings of their owner or user to an unknown deity. On this subject, see also Rosamilia 2023, p. 34, ffotnote 91.

Dobias-Lalou' commentary: although this area does not seem to have divine names, they are also common on such altars, whereas fathers' names are quite uncommon. Another reading of line 1 might thus be [Ζ]ηνός. Φιλο[---]. Zeus and the Eumenides are the deities worshipped on similar altars in the vicinity (see IGCyr133300², IGCyr133400², IGCyr133500², IGCyr133600², IGCyr133700², IGCyr133800², IGCyr134000² and IGCyr134200²).

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