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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to Zeus

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0310502
Trismegistos ID: 738303

Source description

Support: Limestone rock-cut altar with at least three compartments and a square recess in the rear wall, (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed on the rear wall, above the recess.

Letters: Height not registered; spool-shaped zeta.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 at Cyrene: Ain Hofra.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not published before IGCyr 031050 .

Text

Interpretive

Ζη(νός)

Diplomatic

ΖΗ

Apparatus

1: the last three letters might also be worn out

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Zeus.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Zeus.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Zeus.

Commentary

This inscription seems to have escaped Ferri, who copied the other rocky altars of that area.

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