Dedication to Artemis

IGCyr001600

Trismegistos ID: 738113

Source Description

Support

Fragment of cup, Attic black-glazed ware (0.076-; -; -).

Layout

Scratched under foot (width 0.063).

Letters

Dimensions unknown; slanting mu, straight iota.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of the sixth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found on September 5th, 1925 by L. Pernier at Cyrene : Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis (2nd phase).

Present Location

Lost since 2011 (see commentary).

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Pernier, 1931 , p. 212 (ph.), whence SEG , 9.319. Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , pp. 245-246, n. 10; Ensoli, 2012 , p. 241, fig. 13; Bartolini, 2014 , p. 167, fig. 9.

Text

[Ἀρτά]μιτι

Apparatus

French translation

Pour Artemis.

English translation

For Artemis.

Italian translation

Per Artemis.

Arabic translation

لأجل أرتميس

Commentary

Found in a thesauron inside the pronaos of the 2nd-phase Artemision. About the discovery, see a page of Pernier's excavation note-book now published by Bartolini, 2014 ; this sherd was part of the 'treasure of Benghazi', which has been stolen in 2011 at the National Commercial Bank at Benghazi, as shown by Ensoli, 2012 .

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