Support
Fragment of a plate of Rhodian ware, bearing also IGCyr000300 (0.18; 0.08; -).
Layout
Graffito on the rim (width 0.06).
Letters
0.004 to 0.02.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 600 B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found before 1963 as a chance find at Taucheira pleiades; HGL : exact findspot unrecorded.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1965 by Boardman at Tūkrah : in the Tocra Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor (CDL).
Boardman, 1966 Boardman, J., 1966, Evidence for the dating of Greek settlements in Cyrenaica, Annual of the British School at Athens (ABSA)61, 149-156 - see in bibliography , pp. 153-155; Dobias-Lalou, 1970 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1970, Pour une chronologie des inscriptions archaïques de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 44, 228-256 - see in bibliography , pp. 233-235, n. 3. Cf. 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 , pp. 65, 68; 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 , p. 45 and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography 2017.638.
1 Ἀπ̣ονίκας : Dobias-Lalou, 1970 Dobias-Lalou, C., 1970, Pour une chronologie des inscriptions archaïques de Cyrène, Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes (RPh)ser. 3, 44, 228-256 - see in bibliography ἀπὸ νίκας (Masson's reading)
Aponikas a inscrit.
Aponikas inscribed.
Aponikas ha iscritto.
The letters may be either Cyrenaean or Theran, so the graffito might have been scratched at either places (see also at IGCyr000300).
The reading Ἀπονίκας is now conforted by another occurrence at IGCyr122400.
Antonini's idea that the penultimate preserved letter, instead of being a gamma, might be a chi with trident-shape is not sustainable (see photograph).
أبونيكاس نقش أو كتب
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