Description: Small limestone altar with a hollow in the top for a statue base.
(h:
0.125. x d:
0.07).
Moulded above and below; damaged on the back.
Text: Originally inscribed on all four sides, but the text on the back is now lost.
Letters: Perhaps first - second centuries CE: 0.012; lunate sigma and omega.
Date: First - second centuries CE
Findspot:
Cyrene:
Sanctuary of Demeter and Kore: Found in the Wadi Bel Gadir (so Ghislanzoni).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum.
Apparatus
1-2: [Πρά]ξων Λύοντος Δή[μητρι | καὶ Κ]όραι Ghislanzoni, 1915 whence LGPN VI-65452; But there is insufficient space. ; [Λ]έων | Λύοντ|ος Δή[μ|ητρι | Κ]όραι Fabbricotti, 2007French translation
Translation source: AE
Léon, fils de Lyon, à Déméter et Koré
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2012
?Dexon (scil. son) of Lyon to Demeter (scil. and) Kore.
Commentary
Perhaps καὶ should be restored at the end of d.1.
Bibliography: Ghislanzoni, 1915, 218, fig.74, supplements by Oliverio, whence SEG 9.105, PHI 323959. Republished Fabbricotti, 2007, 8, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2008.601, AE 2007.1675, SEG 57.2017.2; Reynolds, 2012, B.2, whence SEG 62.1797.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face a (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1997: 97/II/7)
Fig. 2. Face b (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1997: 97/II/8)
Fig. 3. Face c (C. Dobias-Lalou, 1997: 97/II/9)