Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, SN.93.7.
Support
Fragment of a plain small jug ('olletta') of local ware (0.065; 0.036;0.01; diameter c. 0.12).
Layout
Incised sinistrorsum before firing, on the lid and belly
Letters
0.013-0.016; straight iota, four-strikes sigma
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Fifth century B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1993 by L. Bacchielli at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : cave of the Nymphs .
Last recorded Location
Observed in 1993 by A. Santucci at Shahat : Storeroom of the Italian missions .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editors.
Lazari and Santucci in Gill-Santucci-Uhlenbrock, 2000 Gill, D.W.J., Santucci, A., Uhlenbrock, J.P., 2000, Catalogo, in M.E. Micheli, A. Santucci (eds.), Il santuario delle Nymphai chthoniai a Cirene: Il sito e le terrecotte, Monografie di Archeologia libica25, Roma, 141-184 - see in bibliography , pp. 182-183, n. 930 (dr.), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique Dobias-Lalou, C.Bulletin Épigraphique in Études Grecques (REG)1987- - see in bibliography , 2001.562, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 50.1642.
1 ΙΣ ι also consonant with μ : Gill-Santucci-Uhlenbrock, 2000 Gill, D.W.J., Santucci, A., Uhlenbrock, J.P., 2000, Catalogo, in M.E. Micheli, A. Santucci (eds.), Il santuario delle Nymphai chthoniai a Cirene: Il sito e le terrecotte, Monografie di Archeologia libica25, Roma, 141-184 - see in bibliography [---] ISI (sic: see commentary)
Intraduisible.
Not usefully translatable.
Intraducibile.
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد.
The first edition of this sherd was based upon the unpublished thesis of Carla Lazari (University of Padova, 1952-1953), completed by Anna Santucci, who updated the bibliography and commentary about the script. Unfortunately, the references given to a so-called 'three-strokes sigma' are out of place, as the compared items are all three-strokes iotas, but for one vase-inscription painted in Attica. This isolated piece of local ware is probably difficult to date and it seems that the date (VI century) given in the publication is only based upon the script.
In fact, the photograph shows clearly a four-strokes sigma, which also indicates the retrograd direction of the inscription. The third letter might be either iota or part of a mu. The straight iota and the use of sigma forbid to date the script before ca. 600.
Moreover, a tentative restoration [Νυμφα]ῖσι, proposed by Micheli and Santucci in Gill-Santucci-Uhlenbrock, 2000 Gill, D.W.J., Santucci, A., Uhlenbrock, J.P., 2000, Catalogo, in M.E. Micheli, A. Santucci (eds.), Il santuario delle Nymphai chthoniai a Cirene: Il sito e le terrecotte, Monografie di Archeologia libica25, Roma, 141-184 - see in bibliography , p. 128 is impossible on behalf of the dialect. Beginning with Ἰσμ- we know only of mythical or geographical names, which might produce a personal name. If Ισι- should be read, an interpretation seems even more obscure. Non liquet .
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