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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication to the Heroes

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0322002
Trismegistos ID: 738315

Source description

Support: Rock-cut niche containing an altar with two compartments (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Inscribed inside the niche, partly on the left wall (worn out), partly on the rear wall, as if in relation with the left compartment only.

Letters: height not registered.

Date: Perhaps fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 at Cyrene: Ain Hofra.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 in situ at Ain Hofra.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Ferri 1923, n. 14, whence SEG, 9.338; IGCyr 032200 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἡ̣ρώ(ων).

Diplomatic

.ΡΩ

Apparatus

1: Ἡ̣ρώ(ων): [Ἡ]ρώ[ων] SEG

French translation

(scil. Autel) des Héros.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of the Heroes.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) degli Eroi.

Commentary

To our knowledge, the heroes are worshipped only at Ain Hofra, see e.g. IGCyr0321002, IGCyr0323002.

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