Gurzil

He is known from two sources, the Latin poem Iohannis by the 6th-century Christian Roman poet Corippus and a Neo-Punic inscription from Lepcis Magna.

[1][2] According to Corippus, the Laguatan of Tripolitania carried a representation of Gurzil in the form of a bull into battle against the Romans when they revolted along with the Austurii in AD 546.

Ierna, the chief and high priest of the Laguatan, was killed while trying to rescue the image of Gurzil.

[1] A temple among the ruins of Gerisa (Ghirza) in Libya may have been dedicated to Gurzil, and the name of the town itself may even be related to his name.

[4] According to the 9th-century Muslim writer al-Bakrī, there was a place called Gherza in Tripolitania with a hilltop sanctuary containing a stone idol that the Berber tribes from the surrounding region still worshipped.

Neo-Punic inscription naming Gurzil