Unclear
IGCyr002400
Trismegistos ID: 738126
Source Description
Support
Cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.63).
Layout
Scratched under the base.
Letters
Height unknown; alpha with oblique bar, tailless upsilon.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Ca. 500 B.C.
Findspot
Found between 1928 and 1929 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis (2nd phase).
Last recorded Location
Seen by L. Pernier between 1928 and 1929.
Present Location
Lost since 2011 (see commentary).
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor (CDL).
Bibliography
Pernier, 1931 Pernier, L., 1931, L'Artemision di Cirene, Africa Italiana4, Roma, 173-228 - see in bibliography , p. 212 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 9.318. Cf. 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 , p. 248, n. 16; Ensoli, 2012 Ensoli, S., 2012, Il 'Tesoro Archeologico della Libia', oggi denominato 'Tesoro di Bengasi' e l'attività svolta nel 2011-2012 dalla MAIC per il suo recupero in collaborazione con i DoA di Tripoli, Bengasi e Cirene, con il Comando Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale (Roma) e Interpol, in S. Ensoli (ed.), For the preservation of the cultural heritage in Libya. A dialogue amongst institutions, Pisa-Roma, 227-250 - see in bibliography , p. 241, fig. 13.
Apparatus
French translation
Intraduisible.
English translation
Not usefully translatable.
Italian translation
Intraducibile.
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد
Commentary
Meaning not understandable. A trade-mark? An abbreviation of εὖ and κα(λῶς) or of εὔκα(ιρος)?
Found in a thesauron inside the pronaos of the 2nd-phase Artemision, this sherd was part of the 'treasure of Benghazi', which has been stolen in 2011 at the National Commercial Bank at Benghazi, as we now know from Ensoli, 2012 Ensoli, S., 2012, Il 'Tesoro Archeologico della Libia', oggi denominato 'Tesoro di Bengasi' e l'attività svolta nel 2011-2012 dalla MAIC per il suo recupero in collaborazione con i DoA di Tripoli, Bengasi e Cirene, con il Comando Carabinieri Tutela del Patrimonio Culturale (Roma) e Interpol, in S. Ensoli (ed.), For the preservation of the cultural heritage in Libya. A dialogue amongst institutions, Pisa-Roma, 227-250 - see in bibliography .
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