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 : 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 , p. 85, n. 1875 (ph., dr.). Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2015 , p. 67.

Text

[---]  [χαρ]ιστέ̄ριον

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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