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Dedication to Zeus

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1032002
Trismegistos ID: 738546

Source description

Support: Altar with probably two or three compartments, now broken off at left and on top (w: 1.13 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.74).

Layout: Inscribed on front face in correspondence with the right compartment.

Letters: 0.03; middle-size omicron, slanting sigma.

Date: Probably fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by G. Oliverio in 1933 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, East of the so-called Wall of Nicodamos.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by D. Morelli in 1960 in situ, in the Sanctuary of Apollo. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1983 and again in 2010 in situ.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Morelli in SECir, 224 (no image); IGCyr 103200 .

Text

Interpretive

Ζ̣ηνός

Diplomatic

.ΗΝΟΣ

Apparatus

1: Ζ̣ηνός: Ζηνός SECir

French translation

(scil. Autel de) Zeus.

English translation

(scil. Altar of) Zeus.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare di) Zeus.

Commentary

About the clearance of the area and the discovery of the group of altars (IGCyr1028002, IGCyr1029002, IGCyr1030002, IGCyr1033002, IGCyr1034002, IGCyr1034302) see Luni 2014, p. 141.

No name can be now read at left, but there were probably other deities to whom the altar was dedicated.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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