Support
A double rock-cut altar with two shallow compartments much worn out (approximate dimensions estimated from photograph 0.78; 0.14; -), immediately to the right of IGCyr133900.
Layout
Inscribed on the front below the compartments in the middle of the whole plinth.
Letters
0.13; slanting mu (?), upsilon without tail.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Probably second half of fifth or beginning of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in the lower part of Wadi el Aish .
Last recorded Location
First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
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 , n. 8 (fig. 22).
(Autel) des Euménides.
(Altar) of the Eumenides.
(Altare) delle Eumenidi.
The three letters being well centred, an abbreviation is sure. As pointed out by E. Rosamilia, the upsilon has no tail and the third letter, which has the same appearance as the preceding, might be the central part of a mu, the first oblique stroke of which would overlap the right part of the uspilon, forming a ligature.
Although ligatures are not common in the archaic period, the shape of upsilon gives a clue for a high date.
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