IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name, perhaps dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1155002
Trismegistos ID: 738707

Source description

Support: Rock-cut altar with three compartments, each in a niche (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in the rock above two niches.

Letters: 0.09; slightly dissymmetrical nu.

Date: Perhaps third or second century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene: along the road to Balagrae, opposite the Eastern limit of the Southern temple precinct.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Observed by G. Paci in 2008 in situ, East of the Southern temple precinct. Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in situ.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (GP).

Bibliography

Paci 2011, p. 268 and fig. 14.1.8 and fig. 8, whence SEG, 61.1555.B.1 and SEG, 61.1555.B.2; IGCyr 115500 . Cf. Gasparini – Rosamilia 2016, pp. 190-195, whence SEG, 66.2322.

Text

Interpretive

Ἀντιπα[τρ---]

Diplomatic

ΑΝΤΙΠΑ[..---]

French translation

Antipatros (ou) d'Antipatros.

English translation

Antipatros (or ) belonging to Antipatros.

Italian translation

Antipatros (o) di Antipatros.

Commentary

One of the series of personal names inscribed above altars rock-cut in niches; the 'owner' of the altar(s) engraved his name, but we do not know the deity to whom offerings were laid down.

Neither do we know whether the personal name was written at the nominative or genitive case.

Paci's description was misinterpreted in SEG, producing two similar items. The name Ἀντίπα[τρος] is engraved only once across two niches.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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