Support: A rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed in one line on top of the rear wall, which is broken off at left and worn out at right.

Letters: 0.035; slightly slanting mu.

Date: Probably last quarter of the fourth or first half of the third 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.

French translation

Pour l'Euménide, pour Mèlikhios.

English translation

For the Eumenide, for Melichios.

Italian translation

Per l'Eumenide, per Melichios.

Commentary

Zeus Melichios is here named only with his epithet. However there is no reason to think that this became a divine name by itself.

The use of the dative is unique on such altars. Only this mention deserves fully to be said 'dedication', a term which we took conventionally for the many other instances with the genitive.

For a Eumenide at the singular see also IGCyr133800².

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