Dedication
IGCyr002200
Trismegistos ID: 738124
Source Description
Support
Two adjacent fragments of a kothon, Corinthian ware (0.074-; -; -).
Layout
Scratched on wall, below frieze.
Letters
0.003-0.006; epsilon with three equal bars, straight iota, rho without tail.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 500 B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira pleiades; HGL : archaic votive deposit .
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1965 by J. Boardman.
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Bibliography
Boardman-Hayes, 1973 Boardman, J., Hayes, J., 1973, Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965. The archaic deposits II and later deposits, British School of Archaeology at AthensSuppl. 10, London - see in bibliography , p. 85, n. 1875 (ph., dr.). 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. 67.
Apparatus
French translation
[---] offrande de gratitude.
English translation
[---] offered with gratitude.
Italian translation
[---] dono di ringraziamento.
Commentary
Boardman's restoration of the word χαριστήριον is quite convincing, although we hitherto have no parallel in other dedications from Cyrenaica.
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