Support
Bottom of a base of Attic black-glazed ware with stamped palmettes and roulettings (dimensions unknown).
Layout
Graffito on the underside of the base.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps sixth century B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found in 1998 at Euesperides pleiades; HGL : area P .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from previous editor.
E.Zimi in Wilson, 1999 Wilson, A., et al., 1999, Urbanism and economy at Euesperides (Benghazi): preliminary report on the 1999 season, Libyan Studies (LibStud)30, 147-168 - see in bibliography , pp. 161-163 (no image), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2000.743, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 49.2353 a.
1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography [μ?]ισθὸς οἰκία[ς?] : Wilson, 1999 Wilson, A., et al., 1999, Urbanism and economy at Euesperides (Benghazi): preliminary report on the 1999 season, Libyan Studies (LibStud)30, 147-168 - see in bibliography [---] ισθος ΟΙΚΙΑ[---]
Loyer de la maison (?)
Rent for the house (?)
Pigione per la casa (?)
تأجير للمنزل
No other Greek word occurs to the mind for [---] ισθος than μισθός, which sometimes means 'rent' especially in Egyptian papyri; however this reading remains unsure as long as no photograph of the sherd is available.
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