Support: Fine limestone stele, chipped off on the upper edge at right (w: 0.56 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.09-0.11), thicker at right, fitting exactly a rectangular hollow near which it was found, just to the left of the rock-cut altar bearing IGCyr133600².

Layout: Inscribed in one line just under the upper edge.

Letters: Average 0.03, carefully cut, with very small serifs; slightly slanting mu, probably dissymmetrical nu.

Date: Probably 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

Euménide(s) [---?].

English translation

Eumenide(s) [---?].

Italian translation

Eumenide(/i) [---?].

Commentary

This object is unique and the lack of the name end does not help to determine its function. Although standing at a fixed place amongst altars dedicated to the Eumenides (once at least one Eumenide IGCyr133800²) it cannot support, like them, offerings. If considered nonetheless as a dedication, the formula should be completed as a dative. On the other hand, as E. Rosamilia puts it, it might also be a caption for an aniconic figure of the deity (or deities). C. Dobias-Lalou adds that it might also be a sort of sign-post for the whole area of altars. Be it what it is, the reason for the stele to be movable is not clear.

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