Dedication of tithe
IGCyr004200
Trismegistos ID: 738146
Source Description
Support
Two non adjacent fragments of plain rimmed cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter c. 0.20).
Layout
Scratched letters written upside-down on lower part of outside.
Letters
0.003-0.006.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
500-480 B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira pleiades; HGL : 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 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. 84 n. 2187 (ph., dr.).
Apparatus
French translation
(Untel) a consacré sur la dîme à Demeter [---] .
English translation
(So-and-so) dedicated from the tithe to Demeter [---] .
Italian translation
(Il tale) ha dedicato dalla decima a Demetra [---] .
Commentary
τᾶς δεκάτας should be rather a gen. sing. 'from the tithe' than an acc. plur., for this word is usually only a singular.
This graffito is the only clear instance of a tithe for Demeter. IGCyr00380 might be another one, IGCyr003910 is less clear.
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