Support: Limestone altar with one compartment, adjacent and similar to IGCyr021600² (w: 0.56 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.56).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.025; slanting sigma.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene ➚: under vestibule of Byzantine Baths, which was formerly an area belonging to the so-called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in the vestibule of Byzantine Baths.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Zeus.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Zeus.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Zeus.

Commentary

Known through a simple mention by Ferri, it belongs to the series of altars with compartments of the region that Ferri for the first time called 'agorà degli dei' on the same line as the Theran one. Neither illustration nor dimensions were given then.

Morelli in SECir, 230 gave no illustration, but from the localisation, dimensions and similarity with IGCyr021600². Dobias-Lalou was able to identify the stone, although she was unable to provide a useful image for IGCyr. More on this subject at Dobias-Lalou 2020.

Morelli's different reading is due to the bad condition of the stone, worn out and covered by concretion; moreover the god's name proposed by him has hitherto no parallel in Cyrenaica, whereas a good number of deities were worshipped on several similar altars.

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr021700 Dedication

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