Support
Limestone altar (0.32; -;0.17 the altar being half buried, the height could not be measured).
Layout
Inscribed on front face.
Letters
0.07.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1918 at Massah pleiades; HGL (ancient Artamis): along the road leading from the spring under the acropolis to the Wadi Oumgebeb.
Present Location
Not found by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
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 , p. 44, n. 23, fig. 38 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.753.
(Autel) de Déméter.
(Altar) of Demeter.
(Altare) di Demetra.
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.
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