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

Names, perhaps dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1158002
Trismegistos ID: 738709

Source description

Support: Rock-cut altar of the type escharai (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed in two lines in the niche above the altar.

Letters: 0.17 at l. 1, 0.125 at l. 2; slanting sigma.

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 et fig. 14.1.4 and 3, whence SEG 61.1555.B.5; IGCyr 115800 . Cf. Gasparini – Rosamilia 2016, pp. 190-195, whence SEG, 66.2322.

Text

Interpretive

ΗΛΙΣ
[---?]ΤΙΜ[---?]

Diplomatic

ΗΛΙΣ
[---?]ΤΙΜ[---?]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

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 known the deity to whom offerings were laid down.

Dobias-Lalou's commentary: at line 2 there was one of the many names beginning with Tima- or Timo-. At line 1, if ever nothing is lost at the beginning, the guess is not so easy.

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