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

Name, probably dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1159002
Trismegistos ID: 738710

Source description

Support: Two rock-cut altars of the type escharai (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on front face below the compartments.

Letters: Height unknown; phi with large oval loop.

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. 14.1.1, whence SEG, 61.1555.B.6; IGCyr 115900 . Cf. Gasparini – Rosamilia 2016, pp. 190-195, whence SEG, 66.2322.

Text

Interpretive

[Σ]τ̣εφάνω

Diplomatic

[.].ΕΦΑΝΩ

Apparatus

1: [Σ]τ̣εφάνω: [---]εφάνω Paci 2011

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Stephanos.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Stephanos.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Stephanos.

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.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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