Dedication

IGCyr003800

Trismegistos ID: 738140

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary skyphos, Attic black figure ware, late type (diameter 0.063).

Layout

Scratched on lower part of wall.

Letters

0.0045-0.006; alpha with bar joining a short right stroke, nu nearly symmetrical, rho with a short oblique stroke under loop.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Between 475 and 450 B.C. (monument-type)

Findspot

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

Last recorded Location

Seen by J. Boardman in 1965.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Boardman-Hayes, 1973 , n. 2173 (dr.). Cf. Dobias-Lalou, 2015 , pp. 67, 319.

Text

[---]  τ̣άνδε τ̣⸢ᾶι⸣ Κόραι

Apparatus

1 (Boardman's reading)

French translation

(Un tel a offert) cette (coupe) à Korè.

English translation

(So-and-So dedicated) this (cup) to Kore.

Italian translation

(Il tale ha dedicato) questa (coppa) a Kore.

Commentary

Rho has a tailed form, very rare in Cyrenaica (see also IGCyr110500). However, being offered to Kore, the cup was probably inscribed locally.

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