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IGCyr001930

Trismegistos ID: 738120

Source Description

Support

One-piece Attic black-figure amphora (diameter estimated at belly 0.27).

Layout

Scratched on the outside, upon a figure of horse muzzle.

Letters

0.012; epsilon with three equal bars, crossed theta.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps first half of the sixth century B.C.

Findspot

Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira : archaic votive deposit .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Editor's transcription.

Bibliography

Boardman-Hayes, 1966 , n. 1028 (ph., dr.); Dobias-Lalou, 1970 , p. 251, g.

Text

  ← Ι̣ΘΕ

Apparatus

1 Boardman-Hayes, 1966  ιθε

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد

Commentary

Boardman writes 'incised on the neck of one of the horses'. From his photograph, one would rather see the letters on the summit of the head.

The script is not surely Cyrenaean.

As for the meaning, Boardman takes over Jeffery's suggestion of a mix of ἴτε and ἴθι, an explanation to be taken cautiously, the more so that the first letter is partly lost, keeping only a short oblique stroke, compatible with other letters. We have no better solution to propose.

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