Support: Two rock-cut altars, each in a niche (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in the rock above both niches.

Letters: 0.09-0.12; slightly dissymmetrical nu, non-slanting sigma, widely open upsilon.

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

Findspot: Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene ➚: along the road to Balagrae, opposite 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).

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

One of the series of personal names inscribed above altars rock-cut in niches; the 'owner' of the altar(s) engraved his name, but we do not known the deity to whom offerings were laid down.

Dobias-Lalou's commentary: Paci did not comment upon the name in a), the last letter of which he transcribed as a kappa. If this reading is sure, it should have been cut instead of a chi. If it is preserved only partly, it might also be a chi. This would allow to suspect a common personal name derived from the adjective εὐτυχής. For b) an alternative reading would be Zeus' name (see at IGCyr115200²).

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