Support
Rock-cut altar(s) with compartment(s) (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Inscribed on front face, below the compartment.
Letters
Height unknown; non-slanting sigma.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps third or second century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found by M. Luni in 2007 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : along the road to Balagrae, next to the Eastern limit of the Southern temple precinct .
Later recorded Location
Observed by G. Paci in 2008 in situ.
Last recorded Location
Seen by E. Rosamilia in 2010 in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from stone (GP).
Paci, 2011 Paci, G., 2011, Nouveaux documents épigraphiques provenant du sanctuaire extra-urbain de Déméter à Cyrène, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2011, 258-273 - see in bibliography , p. 268 and fig. 13, n. 5, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 61.1555.A.3. Cf. Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 Gasparini, M., Rosamilia, E., 2016, I nuovi altari rupestri extraurbani dallo Uadi Belgadir e il culto di Zeus e delle Eumenidi, in V. Purcaro, O. Mei, Cirene greca e romana II, Monografie di archeologia libica, 44, Cirene Atene d'Africa9, 189-217 - see in bibliography , pp. 190-195.
(Autel) de [---] ès fils de Glaukos.
(Altar) of [---] es son of Glaucos.
(Altare) di [---] es figlio di Glaukos.
One of the numerous instances of a rock-cut eschara , probably used for personal offerings of the man who cut his name in front of the compartment(s), letting know that he is its owner or user, whereas the honoured deity remains unknown.
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