Support: A double rock-cut altar with two compartments, one (a) hollowed out to the right, the other shallow (b) to the left (dimensions unknown); the hollow of a was closed with a stone lid and contained miniature vases.

Layout: Inscribed on the West side in correspondence with each compartment, with a rough alignement.

Letters: 0.05; slanting mu, upsilon without tail.

Date: Probably first quarter of the fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found between 2008 and 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene ➚: Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone, North-West of the Extra-Mural Temple of Demeter.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ in the Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Apparatus

French translation

a) (scil. Autel) de Zeus.

b) (scil. Autel) des Euménides.

English translation

a) (scil. Altar) of Zeus.

b) (scil. Altar) of the Eumenides.

Italian translation

a) (scil. Altare) di Zeus.

b) (scil. Altare) delle Eumenidi.

Commentary

The names of Zeus and the Eumenides are often cut together on the altars at Ain Hofra (for instance IGCyr030900²). In most cases the Eumenides are mentioned as a group. However there are at least two instances of one Eumenide at the singular in IGCyr133400² and IGCyr133800², whence Rosamilia's alternative reading.

Independently of the bad preservation of the rocky surface, the space available on the stone leads to restore a full mention for a) and an abbreviated one for b).

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