Support: First to the right of four rock-cut altars (see also IGCyr064600², IGCyr064800²); dimensions unknown.

Layout: Inscribed on the front below the compartment.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1938 at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded; from the photograph it is obviously outside the city.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

(scil. Autel appartenant à) Lysis. (scil. Autel) des Euménides. Courète. Mélikhios.

English translation

(scil. Altar belonging to) Lysis. (scil. Altar) of the Eumenides. Curete. Melichios.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare appartenente a) Lysis. (scil. Altare) delle Eumenidi. Curete. Melichios.

Commentary

This is the most explicit of the series of nearby altars (see IGCyr064600² and IGCyr064800²) and it helps to understand the abbreviated mentions on the others.

Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961 suggested that Λύσιος was a divine name or epithet. However there is no example of such a divine name in Cyrenaica. Besides, such private altars often bear the owner's name, so that it seems more natural to consider this name as a personal name, all the more so as Lysis is very common in Cyrenaica.

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