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IGCyr000200

Trismegistos ID: 738095

Source Description

Support

Sherd from a closed vase of fine-ware (0.045; 0.045; -).

Layout

Incised before firing.

Letters

0.03; an epsilon inclined to the left with oblique bars.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Before sixth century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found in 1964 in Wadi al Khalij (ancient Aziris?).

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Boardman, 1966 , p. 151, n. 14; Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 251, c.

Text

  ← Ε υ

Apparatus

1 Ε υ : Boardman, 1966  Ε

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد

Commentary

Boardman mentioned only the epsilon, but on the photograph an oblique stroke follows it at left, forming part of another letter.

The sherd was collected during a brief visit and no archaeological context is available.

The provenance and type of ceramics are not clearly given by Boardman, who only judges that it might be earlier than ca. 631 B.C. (conventional date of the foundation of Cyrene). The mouth of Wadi Khalij might be the place called Aziris where the settlers, according to Herodotus' relation, remained during six years before being brought to Cyrene by Libyans.

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