Support
Laconian ware cup, flat-based, with short rim and two handles (diameter 0.114-0.117).
Layout
Scratched on one side of belly, beginning near left handle (width 0.051).
Letters
0.01 to 0.012 straight iota, qoppa resembling a rho, smaller omicron.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 600 B.C. (monument-type, lettering)
Findspot
Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira pleiades; HGL : archaic votive deposit .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcriptionfrom editor (CDL).
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 , p. 169 n. 998 (ph., dr.); 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. 253-255, m. 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 , p. 66.
1 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 Ϙο̄κίο̄ : 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 φōκιο : 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 ϙōκιο : 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 ῾Ρōκιο || | : - see in bibliography (Boardman did not mention this sign)
(J'appartiens à) Kôkios.
(I belong to) Kokios.
(Proprietà di) Kokios.
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 did non include it into the Cyrenaean items. However, as ϙ is now better attested, this might be after all have been inscribed in Cyrenaica.
At right end of the graffito, a vertical stroke extending to the left at top resembles no Greek letter and might be a sort of final punct. This sign is not commented upon by ed. princ.
The new personal name Κώκιος was discussed by 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 with reference to Robert, 1963 Robert, L., 1963, Noms indigènes dans l'Asie mineure gréco-romaine, Bibliothèque archéologique et historique de l'Institut français d'archéologie d'Istanbul13, Paris - see in bibliography , p. 312-320.
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