Name of a Rhodian

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1 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  Ἀρχένβρ̣[οτ]  [c. 1 - 2] : Boardman-Hayes, 1966 Boardman, J., Hayes, J., 1966, Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965. The archaic deposits I, British School of Archaeology at AthensSuppl. 4, London - see in bibliography  ΑΡΧΗΝΒΑ̣ : Boardman-Hayes, 1966 Boardman, J., Hayes, J., 1966, Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965. The archaic deposits I, British School of Archaeology at AthensSuppl. 4, London - see in bibliography  ΑΡΨΗΝΒΑ̣ : Boardman-Hayes, 1966 Boardman, J., Hayes, J., 1966, Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965. The archaic deposits I, British School of Archaeology at AthensSuppl. 4, London - see in bibliography  Αρχην Βα̣[καλ?] (Anna Morpurgo Davies' suggestion) : 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  ΑΡΧΗΝΒ

French translation

Arkhembr[otos---] .

English translation

Archembr[otos---] .

Italian translation

Archembr[otos---] .

Commentary

For this graffito, no convincing explanation was given before S.M. Marengo's one: she rightly pointed out that it could be read only with the trident-shape letter as a chi and eta as a short e, both attested in the archaic lettering of Rhodes, the more so that such a reading produces a typical Rhodian name. The use of nu instead of mu before beta is a hypercorrect feature, as well as the use of eta instead of epsilon.

It cannot be decided whether the graffito was cut in Rhodes and brought to Cyrenaica or cut in Cyrenaica by a Rhodian traveller. In both cases, the vase, a Laconian ware, had travelled more or less through the Mediterranean sea ( contra 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 ). As to the script, the present use of trident-shaped chi in a Rhodian context should be compared with two other examples found at Cyrene: in IGCyr110100 the rest of the lettering is purely Cyrenaean, whereas IGCyr000430 is too fragmentary to allow any classification.

The name, when complete, might have been at the genitive case for an owner's mark or at the nominative for a dedicant's name, so that the exact text-type escapes us.

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