Support
Attic black-glazed ware lekanis; with lid (diameter 0.13).
Layout
Scratched under foot opposite IGCyr088050, to be read from outside.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
End of fifth to beginning of fourth century B.C.
Findspot
Found between 1952 and 1954 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL : in a house of area A .
Present Location
Said to be already lost in 1998.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
Gill, 1998 Gill, D.W.J., 1998, A Greek price inscription from Euesperides, Cyrenaica, Libyan Studies (LibStud)29, 83-88 - see in bibliography , whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2049.
1 drachme la douzaine.
1 drachma per dozen.
1 dracma alla dozzina.
The lekanis was found broken into some 25 fragments between the last floor of the house and the ashy layer that covers a large part of the upper city and also of the lower city and probably related to a destruction in the early fourth century.
About this isolated instance of the Attic notation of a pice through acrophonic numbers, see Dobias-Lalou, 2017 Dobias-Lalou, C., 2017, Dire et écrire les noms en Cyrénaïque: quelques réflexions, in Inglese, A., Epigrammata 4. L'uso dei numeri greci nelle iscrizionie. Atti del Convegno Roma, 16-17 dicembre 2016, Tivoli, 183-208 - see in bibliography , p. 200, footnote 50.
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