Support: Rectangular altar cut in the rock, surrounded by a regular margin and originally separated in two unequal parts; a deep transversal trench cutting the rectangle in the middle of the width might be a pit for libations (whole altar w: 0.96 × h: 0.46; inscribed margin w: 0.96 × h: 0.06).

Layout: Inscribed on the upper border; many later Greek and Arabic letters were scratched everywhere.

Letters: 0.04; epsilon with oblique bars, rho with large loop not quite circular.

Date: Fifth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found before 1923 in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚: at top of Kallikrateia Rock.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 1982 and many other times in situ in Sūsah: Kallikrateia Rock.

Text constituted from: Transcription from stone (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[c. 4 - 5] de Kallikrateia.

English translation

[c. 4 - 5] of Kallikrateia.

Italian translation

[c. 4 - 5] di Kallikrateia.

Commentary

The preserved name does not begin at the left end of the space available, where rests of illegible letters seem to exist under later graffiti; however there is not enough space for a word like ἐσχάρα. Might it be some form of ἱαρός?

The date of the inscription, erroneously given as first century BC in SEG, 9.350, was said «buona epoca» by Oliverio 1932-1933, pp. 166-167, n. 48 and «probably early third century BC» by Reynolds 1976, n. 1. But both epsilon and rho at least belong to an older period, even older than the end of the fourth century (so Callot 1999, pp. 85-86, n. 41 and Dobias-Lalou 2000, p. 227).

Chamoux 1998 suggested that the name was an epithet or a cult-name of Artemis, as a protector of the port. For other deities honoured on the spot, see Dobias-Lalou 2012, pp. 230-231 and GVCyr052².

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