Travel Guide Suluntah

25 km towards the south from Al-Bayda, this village has the remains of a Libyan shrine in the Hellénistico-Roman era. Many reservations still surround the interpretation of the Libyan shrine in Suluntah. We don't know exactly the function or even the dating of this artificial cave that was supported by a column whose only base remains. The small natural cave at the entrance to which four "cut heads" are carved, as called by archaeologists, could be the oldest sanctuary, which would have expanded over the centuries by adding two artificial caves, and perhaps the whole could cover a period ranging from the th century BC to the second century. C.C. It is now open to open skies that one can admire these strange sculptures with a unique style, directly carved in the rock and obeying neither the Greek canons nor the Roman canons. There are characters of plain, human heads of different sizes, animals including a large snake or what could be four pigs at the top of a altar of sacrifice on carved feet of the ground, and some reasons that archaeologists think of Greek inspiration (proof of existence at the same time of a Hellenistic world). Probably the first centuries of the Roman Empire, it was perhaps a involves where the dead were invoked. One thing is certain, however, and a strong local culture was expressed in Cyrenaica, even though a core of Greco-Latin civilisation had settled there for centuries. Two cultural worlds coexisted in Cyrenaica, which were not related.