Name

IGCyr066300

Trismegistos ID: 738349

Source Description

Support

Limestone block broken off at right (0.76; 0.35;0.14).

Layout

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.15.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of the sixth or beginning of the fifth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1918 at Massah (ancient Artamis): near Wadi Ommgebeb.

Present Location

Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli-Oliverio, 1961 , p. 45, n. 25, fig. 41 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG , 20.755.

Text

Ἁγεσ[---]  .

Apparatus

French translation

Hages [---] .

English translation

Hages [---] .

Italian translation

Hages [---] .

Commentary

About the circumstances of the discovery, see Sillani, 2014 , p. 104.

This block was found near a series of rock-cut altars, some of them inscribed (IGCyr003300, IGCyr066000, IGCyr066100 and IGCyr066500); at other places, there are also side by side divine and human names, so the obvious interpretation is the name of a worshipper.

The most plausible restoration for the personal name would be Ἁγέστρατος, which is not unknown in Cyrenaica and most common in Rhodes. However, it is perhaps better to leave the question open.

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