Support
Double rock-cutaltar with two square compartments,the left one having a deeper hollow in the middle (1.3; -; -).
Layout
Inscribed in front, below each compartment.
Letters
Deeply cut, crudely disposed letters.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of the fifth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1918 in Massah pleiades; HGL (ancient Artamis): on bank of wadi Ommgebeb.
Last recorded Location
Seen by G. Oliverio before 1918.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography pp. 45-47, n. 26 (ph.) (from †Oliverio's papers; with note by Pugliese Carratelli), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.756; Dobias-Lalou, 1970 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1970, Pour une chronologie des inscriptions archaïques de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 44, 228-256 - see in bibliography , pp. 248-249, n. 19; Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography pp. 216, 231, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637. Cf. Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C., 2007, La casa di Batto, il culto dell'eroe fondatore e il regime democratico a Cirene, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 245-264 - see in bibliography , p. 249, n. 18, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2001.
a1+b1 Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography Καρ(νειο̄) Ὀφ(έλευς) : Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 Pugliese Carratelli, G., (from G. Oliverio), 1961, Iscrizioni cirenaiche, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)4, 3-54 - see in bibliography , Parisi Presicce, 2007 Parisi Presicce, C., 2007, La casa di Batto, il culto dell'eroe fondatore e il regime democratico a Cirene, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 245-264 - see in bibliography Καρόφι (both following †Oliverio)
a) (Autel) de Kar(neios).
b) (Autel) d'Oph(eles).
a) (Altar) of Kar(neios).
b) (Altar) of Oph(eles).
a) (Altare) di Kar(neios).
b) (Altare) di Oph(eles).
About the circumstances of the discovery, see Sillani, 2014 Sillani, C., 2014, Documenti inediti di E. Ghislanzoni sur territorio di Cirene (1913-1919), in M. Luni, La scoperta di Cirene. Un secolo di scavi 1913-2013, Cirene 'Atene d'Africa', 8, Monografie di archeologia libica37, Roma, 81-108 - see in bibliography , p. 104.
Oliverio's reading as one word Καροφι is questionable for the extreme scarcity of plural datives in -φι and mainly because a divine name *κᾶρες (or rather *κᾶροι) does not exist. Two abbreviated names, each corresponding to one compartment would be a better solution. The vertical stroke at the right end does not seem to be a iota, but a limit for the inscribed field.
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