Tithe (?) or trademark (?)
IGCyr108300
Trismegistos ID: 738613
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, .
Support
Fragmentary foot of a cup of Attic black-glazed ware (height 0.0375; depth 0.0085; diameter 0.073).
Layout
Scratched under foot.
Letters
0.005 approximately (all chipped off at bottom).
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of fifth century B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Found at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : probably from the Sanctuary of Apollo .
Last recorded Location
Seen by J.-J. Maffre in 1987 in Shahat : Cyrene Museum .
Present Location
Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from
Transcription from editor.
Bibliography
Maffre, 2007 Maffre, J.J., 2007, La dévotion à Apollon d'après des graffiti inscrits sur des fragments de céramique grecque trouvés à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 166-183 - see in bibliography , p. 181, n. 51, fig. 21 (ph.), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 57.2002, 16.
Apparatus
1 Δεκά(τα) : Maffre, 2007 Maffre, J.J., 2007, La dévotion à Apollon d'après des graffiti inscrits sur des fragments de céramique grecque trouvés à Cyrène, in C. Dobias-Lalou (ed.), Questions de religion cyrénéenne: actes du colloque de Dijon, 21-23 mars 2002, Karthago27, Paris, 166-183 - see in bibliography δέκα
French translation
Dîme.
English translation
Tithe.
Italian translation
Decima.
Commentary
A reading δέκα would provide a well-formed Greek word, possibly meaningful as a trademark inscribed in full (price or number of items in a bunch?). However, the fragment being stored amidst dedications of the tithe, it is more plausible to read it as an abbreviation. Such is perhaps the case also at IGCyr107900.
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