Support
Limestone altar with compartment, broken in two adjoining pieces (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on the front side, just under the upper edge.
Letters
Height unknown; roughly cut, awkwardly aligned; smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps, fourth century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1990 by F.A. Mohamed, J.M. Reynolds and L. Bacchielli at Taurguni pleiades; HGL .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Mohamed, 1996 Mohamed, F.A., 1996, Targunia dal periodo greco fino alla fine dell’età fatimita, in L. Bacchielli, M. Bonanno Aravantinos (eds.), Scritti di Antichità in memoria di Sandro Stucchi, I, Studi Miscellanei29, Roma, 127-134 - see in bibliography , p. 128, and Mohamed, 2003 Mohamed, F.A., 2003, A note on the site of Targunia, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 223-227 - see in bibliography (ph.), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2004.452, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 53.2070.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography Ἀπόλλων[ος] : Mohamed, 2003 Mohamed, F.A., 2003, A note on the site of Targunia, in Studi in memoria di Lidiano Bacchielli, Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya (QAL)18, 223-227 - see in bibliography Ἀπόλλων[ι]
(Autel) d'Apollon.
(Altar) of Apollo.
(Altare) di Apollo.
The names of gods on such altars are rather owner's marks than dedications, hence the restored genitive case rather than the dative of the first editor.
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