<rs type="textType">Alphabet</rs> Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica Università di Bologna IGCyr000700 738104 igcyr000700 https://igcyr.unibo.it/igcyr000700

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Fragment of crater of local ware ( 0.095 0.03 0.014 ; diameter 0.225-0.253).

 Scratched on rim. 0.003 - 0.007; archaic forms of letters: closed heta, serpentine three-strokes iota. Findspot. Probably ca. 550 B.C.

Found in 1968 at Cyrene: West of agora, House by the Propylaeum.

Seen by L. Gasperini in 1972 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Not seen by IGCyr team.

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(= , pp. 111-118 (drawing)). Cf. , p. 108 ; , pp. 62-72 ; ,, p. 163..

Text α β γ δ ε ϝ ζ η θ ι κ λ μ ν ο π ϻ ϙ ρ τ υ φ χ
Apparatus

Alpha, bêta, gamma, delta, epsilon, digamma, zèta, hèta, thèta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, omicron, pi, san, qoppa, rho, tau, upsilon, phi, khi.

Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, digamma, zeta, heta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, omicron, pi, san, qoppa, rho, tau, upsilon, phi, chi.

Alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, digamma, zeta, heta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, my, ny, omicron, pi, san, qoppa, rho, tau, ypsilon, phi, chi.

Commentary

About the fabric of the vase Gasperini, although inclined to judge it local, followed Stucchi's advice that it was Eastern, perhaps Rhodian ware. More precise information has been given as to the provenance and type of ceramics by D'Angelo, who dates it about 550 B.C. This is somewhat later than the date proposed from the lettering (first half of the sixth century B.C.) by Gasperini.

The shape of beta, differing from that in use on Thera, confirms the statement that IGCyr000300 had been written at Thera or in Cyrenaica by a Theran.

The presence of digamma in this alphabet does not imply that it was still used as a character with a phonetic value in words.

As for the eighth letter, its value should be aspirate, so that we translate heta. However, there are some clues of early psilosis in the Cyrenaean dialect, see , pp. 10-13 and 59 and , pp. 74-75 . This letter might thus also be considered a 'dead' one.