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 : 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 , p. 181, n. 51, fig. 21 (ph.), whence SEG , 57.2002, 16.

Text

Δεκά(τα)

Apparatus

1 Δεκά(τα) : Maffre, 2007  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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