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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0206002
Trismegistos ID: 106103

Source description

Support: Little altar slighlty cut off on top, material unknown (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Unknown

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, N-W of the Altar of Artemis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Oliverio 1929, p. 132, n. 9, whence SEG, 9.119; IGCyr 020600 .

Text

Interpretive

Νίκιο[ς].

Diplomatic

ΝΙΚΙΟ[.]

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Nikis.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Nikis.

French translation

(scil. Altare) di Nikis.

Commentary

If this block is really an altar, it bears no god's name but the owner's name.

The stone seems to be now lost. Oliverio gave neither clue for the date nor photograph, so that a date in the third or second century BC given in SEG, 9.119 is groundless.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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