Support: A double rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments, one (a) complete at left, the other (b) at right broken off at the front part (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the front face below compartment a); textpart b) is supposed to have stood in the lost part below compartment b).

Letters: 0.05; slightly slanting mu, upsilon with widely open oblique bars.

Date: Probably last quarter of fourth or first half of 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

a) (scil. Autel) des Euménides.

b) [Autel de Zeus?].

English translation

a) (scil. Altar) of the Eumenides.

b) [Altar of Zeus?].

Italian translation

a) (scil. Altare) delle Eumenidi.

b) [Altare di Zeus?].

Commentary

E. Rosamilia suggested to restore Zeus' name at right only for reasons of symmetry and on behalf of other examples here and in other areas.

As for this abbreviation of the name of the Eumenides, there is a parallel at IGCyr031100².

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