Dedication

IGCyr000400

Trismegistos ID: 738097

Source Description

Support

Five adjoining fragments of a cup, Laconian ware (0.059-; 0.048;0.003; diameter 0.14).

Layout

Graffito on outside, under rim.

Letters

0.004-0.0056; archaic shape of letters: three-strokes iota, san as sibilant.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Ca. 550 B.C. (monument-type, lettering)

Findspot

Found at Cyrene : agora , under the future Augusteum .

Last recorded Location

Latest seen by Oscar Mei after 1997 in Shahat : Storeroom of the Italian missions .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Editor's transcription.

Bibliography

Gasperini, 1965 , p. 83 (= Gasperini, 2008 , p. 5); Gasperini, 1967 , p. 166, n. 3 (= Gasperini, 2008 , p. 77); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 233, n. 2. Cf. Mei, 2013 , pp. 68-69, pl. XX (pottery).

Text

Ἀρχαῖος Α[---] 

Apparatus

English translation

Archaios A[---] .

French translation

Arkhaios A[---] .

Italian translation

Archaios A[---] .

Arabic translation

أرخيوس [---].

Commentary

The second word might be either the verb ἀνέθηκε or the name of the deity to whom the vase was dedicated or even (but less plausibly) the father's name of the dedicant.

Mei, 2013 , pp. 68-69 ascribes the vase to the 'painter of Hunting'.

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