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

Layout: Inscribed on the rock.

Letters: 0.07.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1918 at Massah ➚ (ancient Artamis): on the bank of Wadi Ommgebeb.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Apparatus

French translation

(scil. Autel) de Zeus. Apollon.

English translation

(scil. Altar) of Zeus. Apollo.

Italian translation

(scil. Altare) di Zeus. Apollo.

Commentary

About the circumstances of the discovery and the trip from Cyrene to Massah directed by Ghislanzoni in 1918 with participation of Oliverio, see Ghislanzoni archive described by Sillani 2014, p. 104.

The dubious nominative Ζήν for the name of Zeus being not attested up to now in Cyrenaica, we prefer to read the abbreviated genitive, although the nieghbouring namle of Apollo is at the nominative.

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