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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1031202
Trismegistos ID: 738545

Source description

Support: Limestone altar with two compartments; middle part of front face broken away (w: 0.27 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.535).

Layout: Inscribed on front face.

Letters: 0.015 to 0.03; smaller mu.

Date: Admittedly Hellenistic (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1960 at Cyrene: in the Sanctuary of Apollo, in the so called Agora of the Gods.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 223 (no image); IGCyr 103120 . Cf. Parisi Presicce 2007, p. 498.

Text

Interpretive

Εὐτιμία

Diplomatic

ΕΥΤΙΜΙΑ

French translation

Eutimia.

English translation

Eutimia.

Italian translation

Eutimia.

Commentary

Morelli's reading is puzzling both because of the nominative instead of the usual genitive and of the oddity of the presumed divine name. No other altar in the Sanctuary of Apollo is dedicated to an abstract entity considered a deity. Even Panakeia has a 'personal' flare, being said daughter of Asklepios. The only similar case would be the altar of Eunomia on the Agora (IGCyr0838002), the placement of which seems to be more easy to explain in relation with the political life.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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