Description: A rock-cut altar within a chamber (B), whose walls are inscribed with M.207,
M.208, M.209, M.210, M.211,
M.212, M.213, M.214,
IGCyr 529; the altar is located in front of the niche in the
centre of the East wall; the stone is chipped above.
Text: Inscribed on the face
Letters: Dated by Ferri as late Hellenistic; we do not feel confident that they fall outside the Roman period.
Date: ?First century BCE
Findspot: Gebel Akhdar: West of Cyrene:
Wadi Bu Nabeh, Bu Darag.
Original location: Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot.
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte Roueché
Kotys (scil. son) of Aristoklidas
Commentary
Ferri regarded the chamber as originally a funerary chamber or heroon of Kotys. It seems to us more likely that it was from the first a sanctuary; Kotys presumably dedicated the altar.
Bibliography: Pacho, 1827, LXIV.1, with Letronne, p.395, whence CIG, Vol.III, 5161; Ferri, 1922, 6, fig. 18, whence SEG 9.739; see also Ferri, 1923, 10f.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Transcription (1827, Pacho, plate LXIV)
Fig. 2. Transcription detail (1827, Pacho, plate LXIV.1)