IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0663002
Trismegistos ID: 738349

Source description

Support: Limestone block broken off at right (w: 0.76 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.14).

Layout: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.15.

Date: End of the sixth or beginning of the fifth century BC (lettering).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not found by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Pugliese Carratelli – Oliverio 1961, p. 45, n. 25, fig. 41 (from †Oliverio's papers) whence SEG, 20.755; IGCyr 066300 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἁγεσ[---] .

Diplomatic

ΑΓΕΣ[---]

French translation

Hages[---].

English translation

Hages[---].

Italian translation

Hages[---].

Commentary

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

This block was found near a series of rock-cut altars, some of them inscribed (IGCyr0033002, IGCyr0660002, IGCyr0661002 and IGCyr0665002); at other places, there are also side by side divine and human names, so the obvious interpretation is the name of a worshipper.

The most plausible restoration for the personal name would be Ἁγέστρατος, which is not unknown in Cyrenaica and most common in Rhodes. However, it is perhaps better to leave the question open.

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