Pederastic acclamation

IGCyr004310

Trismegistos ID: 738148

Source Description

Support

Fragmentary black-glazed ware dish decorated with palmettes (diameter maximum 0.14).

Layout

Scratched a) on upper right; b) at left; c) beneath, at break.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

350-320 B.C. (monument-type)

Findspot

Found in 1963 at Taucheira strewn on the archaic votive deposit .

Last recorded Location

Seen by J. Boardman in 1965.

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Bibliography

Boardman-Hayes, 1973 , pp. 102-103, n. 2360 (dr.); Dobias-Lalou, 2015 , p. 68 with footnote 42.

Text

section a
Σίτ⸢αρ⸣ χ{σ}ος κύσθος, ψωλά

section b
ΑΡ Α
section c
Α̣Ρ̣

Apparatus

a.1 Dobias-Lalou, 2015  Σίτ⸢αρ⸣ χ{σ}ος : Boardman-Hayes, 1973  Σιτραχος : Boardman-Hayes, 1973  Σιτραξος (Boardman)

French translation

a) Sitarkhos, un vagin, une verge.

b) et c) intraduisibles.

English translation

a) Sitarchos, a vagina, a penis.

b) and c) not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

a) Sitarchos, una vagina, un pene.

b) e c) intraducibili.

Commentary

Boardman rightly interpreted a) as a pederastic graffito, although puzzled by the proper name at the beginning. As for its reading, a sigma is written above chi and was probably intended to replace the other one, written at end of the name, but conflicting with the kappa of κύσθος. Evidently, a lettering ΧΣ for ξ should be anachronistic, both in consideration of the date of the ceramics and beside a psi.

If inverting two letters, we get the personal name Σίταρχος, which is already attested at Eretria.

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