Support
On a rock on top of cliff (dimensions irrelevant).
Layout
Inscribed on the rock.
Letters
0.07.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1918 at Massah pleiades; HGL (ancient Artamis): on the bank of Wadi Ommgebeb.
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. 24, fig. 40 p. 45 (from †Oliverio's papers), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.754, b. Cf; 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.
1 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 Ζή(ν) : 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 Ζη(νός)
(Autel) de Zeus. Apollon.
(Altar) of Zeus. Apollo.
(Altare) di Zeus. Apollo.
About the circumstances of the discovery and the trip from Cyrene to Massah directed by Ghislanzoni in 1918 with participation of Oliverio, see Ghislanzoni archive described by 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.
The dubious nominative Ζήν for the name of Zeus being not attested up to now in Cyrenaica, we prefer to read the abbreviated genitive, although the nieghbouring namle of Apollo is at the nominative.
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