Support
Limestone rectangular altar complete on all sides, with mouldings on top and below (0.43-0.46; 0.71;0.38).
Layout
Inscribed under the moulding.
Letters
0.05.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1918 at Massah pleiades; HGL (ancient Artamis): East of the spring.
Last recorded Location
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
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. 47, n. 27 (from †Oliverio's papers), and independently Fraser, 1962 Fraser, P.M., 1962, Two dedications from Cyrenaica, Annual of the British School at Athens (ABSA)57, 24-27 - see in bibliography , pp. 24-25 (ph.) whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 20.757; also Morelli, SECir Oliverio, G., Pugliese-Carratelli, G., Morelli, D., 1961-1962, Supplemento Epigrafico Cirenaico, Annuario della Scuola Archeologica di Atene e delle Missioni Italiane in Oriente (ASAA)39-40 (= n.s. 23-24), 219-375 - see in bibliography , 296 as unpublished. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2000 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2000, Le dialecte des inscriptions grecques de Cyrène, Karthago25, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 227, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1637; 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.
Le Courète.
The Curete.
Il Curete.
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.
As Fraser saw the stone at Balagrae in the late years 1950, it is clear that it had been brought there from Massah after its first record in 1918. Morelli said that he had seen the stone at Baydah, but there is in that city no place to store an inscription other than the storeroom (today a small museum) inside the archaeological enclosure of Balagrae. That should be the place he mentioned. C. Dobias-Lalou could have only a very quick glimpse there and did not see it.
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