Support
Bottom of the foot of a near-complete Attic black-glazed ware kantharos (dimensions taken from photograph: height 0.056; diameter 0.056).
Layout
Scratched in a circle (at least for part of the text) under the foot (diameter 0.047), to be read mostly from the centre.
Letters
0.009-0.025, very uneven letters
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
375-350 B.C. (context)
Findspot
Found in 1999 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, 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 b.
1 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 κ(άνθαρος) ἱαρά : Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography κ(ύλιξ) ἱαρά
[---] consacré(e).
[---] sacred.
[---] sacra(i).
مقدس
If we follow Zimi's idea that the kappa is the abbreviation of the vase name, κύλιξ being feminine would fit better with the adjective ἱαρά thant the proposed κάνθαρος; however the relationship between ἱαρά written in full and the huge kappa is unclear. Furthermore, it cannot even be decided whether ἱαρά is the feminine singular or the neutral plural of the adjective. Any way, it seems to mean that the vase belonged to a god or goddess.
What we provisionally read as an illegible character was described by her as 'a trade symbol (a circle cut by two lines)'. We rather think of an accidental scratch..
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