Description: Small-scale limestone altar with plain mouldings above and below, horns
at four upper angles and a square hole on the upper face.
(w:
0.085 x h:
0.11 x d:
0.078)
Text: Inscribed on the face between the mouldings
(w:
0.065 x h:
0.055 x d:
0.06).
Letters: 0.06 (sigma) to 0.01 (rho); small delta, square sigma.
Date: Probably second century AD
Findspot:
Cyrene: no further location
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Cyrene Museum (Inventory no 2983); Observed in 1982 by CDL (IGCyr team).
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché, Catherine Dobias-Lalou
For Sarapis, Isis
French translation
Translation by: Catherine Dobias-Lalou
Pour Sarapis et Isis
Commentary
Nothing is known about the findspot, except that this undersize altar cames from Cyrene. A series was found in the enclosed sanctuary of Demeter and Kore, just outside the city-walls; this one might rather come from the sanctuary of Isis and other Alexandrine deities on the acropolis. However as it could be easily moved, it might also pertain to a domestic cult and come from a private house.
Bibliography: Fabbricotti, 2007 no 7 and fig. 7, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 2008.601, SEG 57.2017.1 and AE 2007.1674.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Dobias-Lalou, Fabricotti, Reynolds).
Images
None available (2020).