Name of an ostracised man on nine ostraka
IGCyr081900
Trismegistos ID: 738387
Source Description
Support
Nine sherds of beige clay, iii and ix pasted from two adjacent fragments, all belonging to the body of large vases, vi from near the beginning of the foot; i and ii might come from the same vase (i 0.07; 0.041;0.009; ii 0.077; 0.055;0.008; iii 0.07; 0.042;0.009; iv 0.062; 0.043;0.008; v 0.056; 0.025;0.007; vi 0.055; 0.033;0.006-0.01; vii 0.035; 0.027;0.008; viii 0.028; 0.022;0.004-0.009; ix 0.036; 0.023;0.01).
Layout
Scratched on two lines on each sherd: i, ii, iv, vii, viii on inner side, iii, v, vi, ix on outer side.
Letters
i, ii: 0.005; iii, vii: 0.007; iv: l. 1, 0.008, l. 2 0.01; v: 0.004; vi: 0.005-0.007; viii: 0.004-0.009; ix: 0.006-0.01, graffiti of homogenous lettering, spool-shaped zeta, xi without vertical stroke, slantering strokes of sigma; on iv, line 2 is more deeply cut and was perhaps added later.
Place of Origin
Date
End of fifth or beginning of fourth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : in two soundings on the agora, amongst refill layers; one sounding by Stucchi in 1961 under the East Stoa , one in 1993 by Bacchielli near the Sanctuary of the Anax .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editors.
Bibliography
Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography , p. 167, n. 11 (= Gasperini, 2008 Gasperini, L., and Arnaldi, A., Marengo, S.M. (eds.), 2008, Scritti di epigrafia greca, Ichnia10, Tivoli - see in bibliography , p. 79) for sherd vii; for the whole series, Bacchielli, 1994 Bacchielli, L., 1994, L’ostracismo a Cirene, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)122, 257-270 - see in bibliography , pp. 258-260, nn. 1-9, and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 1996.551, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 44.1540, 1.
Text
Apparatus
sherd vii
1 Bacchielli, 1994 Bacchielli, L., 1994, L’ostracismo a Cirene, Rivista di Filologia e Istruzione Classica (RFIC)122, 257-270 - see in bibliography [Πρ]αξιά[δας] : Gasperini, 1967 Gasperini, L., 1967, Le epigrafi, in S. Stucchi, Cirene 1957-1966: Un decennio di attività della missione archeologica italiana a Cirene, Quaderni dell'Istituto italiano di cultura di Tripoli3, Tripoli, 165-189 [= , 75-104] - see in bibliography [Πρ?]αξιά[δας?]
French translation
Praxiadas fils de Zènis.
English translation
Praxiadas son of Zenis.
Italian translation
Praxiadas figlio di Zenis.
Commentary
The homogeneity of material and lettering, the multiplicity of the items and the content limited to name and father's name are good clues in favour of Bacchielli's interpretation of the series: we have here one of the few instances of ostracism attested elsewhere than at Athens. The lettering allowing a date between ca. 420 and 380, Bacchielli gives rather convincing arguments for a more precise date between 413 and 401, in a short period known for conflicts between aristocrats and democrats, a period during which Bacchielli stresses a strong Attic influence in various fields.
Other single ostraka are IGCyr082000, IGCyr082100 and IGCyr082200.
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