Support: Limestone rectangular altar complete on all sides, with mouldings on top and below (w: 0.43-0.46 × h: 0.71 × d: 0.38).

Layout: Inscribed under the moulding.

Letters: 0.05.

Date: Perhaps, fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1918 at Massah ➚ (ancient Artamis): East of the spring.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Last seen by D. Morelli at Balagrae in 1960. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

French translation

Le Courète.

English translation

The Curete.

Italian translation

Il Curete.

Commentary

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

As Fraser saw the stone at Balagrae in the late years 1950, it is clear that it had been brought there from Massah after its first record in 1918. Morelli said that he had seen the stone at Baydah, but there is in that city no place to store an inscription other than the storeroom (today a small museum) inside the archaeological enclosure of Balagrae. That should be the place he mentioned. C. Dobias-Lalou could have only a very quick glimpse there and did not see it.

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