Unclear
IGCyr000430
Trismegistos ID: 738100
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A58 T1.
Support
Fragment of a kylix, Attic black-glazed ware (dimensions not registered).
Layout
Scratched under the rim on the outer side.
Letters
0.006. The 2nd letter seems more likely to be a san than a mu; the photograph shows a very strange ductus for the 4th letter, interpreted by Gasperini as the trident-shape letter.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps sixth century B.C.
Findspot
Found in 1958 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , in a sounding under the North-East corner of the West Stoa .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , p. 166, n. 6 (ph.) (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 78 (ph.)). Cf. Marengo, 2010 Marengo, S.M.2010, Segni e graffiti greci. Proposte di lettura, in S. Antolini, A. Arnaldi, E. Lanzilotta, Giornata di Studi per Lidio Gasperini, 5 giugno 2008, Roma, 13-27 - see in bibliography , p. 20; Dobias-Lalou, 2015 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2015, Les débuts de l'écriture en Cyrénaïque, in A. Inglese, Epigrammata 3. Saper scrivere nel Mediterraneo antico. Esiti di scrittura fra VI e IV sec. a.C., in ricordo di Mario Luni. Atti del convegno di Roma, 7-8 Novembre 2014, Tivoli, 59-80, 315-321 - see in bibliography , p. 70; Antonini, 2016 Antonini, R., 2016, Sulla dedica arcaica ai Dioscuri da Cirene, in V. Purcaro, O. Mei (eds.), Cirene greca e romana II, Monografie di archeologia libica, 44, Cirene Atene d'Africa9, 27-64 - see in bibliography , pp. 45-46 and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography 2017.638.
Apparatus
1 [---] +ας Χ : Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography [---] ΑΜΨ[---]
French translation
Intraduisible.
English translation
Not usefully translatable.
Italian translation
Intraducibile.
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد
Commentary
If we follow Gasperini's interpretation of the fourth letter, it is the third occurrence in Cyrenaica of a trident-shaped letter. In IGCyr110100 and in IGCyr001920, it is used as a chi, whereas the cross-shaped chi was the most frequent in the region. Marengo, 2010 Marengo, S.M.2010, Segni e graffiti greci. Proposte di lettura, in S. Antolini, A. Arnaldi, E. Lanzilotta, Giornata di Studi per Lidio Gasperini, 5 giugno 2008, Roma, 13-27 - see in bibliography has shown that this rare shape is of Rhodian origin. The letter before it might not be a mu and its shape fits a san perfectly. So we propose to divide those poor letters into a name end and a word (or name) beginning.
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