Support: On a rock on top of cliff (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Inscribed on the rock.

Letters: Deeply cut letters, 0.15.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1918 at Massah ➚ (ancient Artamis): Wadi Ommgebeb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Déméter (?).

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Demeter (?).

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Demetra (?).

Commentary

The reading is Oliverio's. This form of genitive, different from the more predictable Δάματρος in IGCyr066000², is not quite sure, the more so that, as pointed by Rosamilia 2023, we know this inscription only from Oliverio's drawing, which does not have space enough for the characters restored. The team of the French mission had looked for those inscriptions in the 1980s without succeeding. The place having been wholly destroyed by urban expansion in the 2010s, there is no hope of further checking.

About the circumstances of the discovery, see Sillani 2014, p. 104.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr066100 Dedication to Demeter

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