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 pleiades; HGL (ancient Artamis): near 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. 45, n. 25, fig. 41 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.755.
Hages [---] .
Hages [---] .
Hages [---] .
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.
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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