Dedication
IGCyr110600
Trismegistos ID: 738636
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, inv. number unknown.
Support
Fragment of the rim of a cup with black-glazed band on top (0.017; 0.02; -).
Layout
Scratched on the outside.
Letters
0.006 to 0.008; three-stroke iota, san for sibilant.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps sixth century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found between 2004 and 2007 by M. Luni at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : temple of the Dioscuri on the Acropolis ridge (once said "tempio ipetrale").
Present Location
Not observed by IGCyr team
Text constituted from
Transcription from photograph (SMM).
Bibliography
Marengo, 2008 Marengo, S.M., 2008, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2008, 26-36 [=] - see in bibliography , p. 35, n. 5 (= Marengo, 2010 Marengo, S.M., 2010, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, in A. Laronde, J. Leclant (eds.), Journée d'hommage à François Chamoux, Paris 11 janvier 2008, Paris, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 120-130 [=] - see in bibliography , p. 129, n. 5), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 58.1839.5.
Apparatus
1 σι+ : Marengo, 2008 Marengo, S.M., 2008, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2008, 26-36 [=] - see in bibliography σι+ (left-to-right) : Marengo, 2008 Marengo, S.M., 2008, Dédicaces aux Dioscures et autres graffiti. Les fragments gravés, Comptes rendus des séances: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres (CRAI)2008, 26-36 [=] - see in bibliography +ισ (right-to-left) : SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography [το?]ῖς (right-to-left)
French translation
Intraduisible.
English translation
Not usefully translatable.
Italian translation
Intraducibile.
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
Commentary
The possibility, suggested by Marengo and followed by SEG, that the letters should be read from right to left might be acceptable because the three-stroke iota has no well fixed orientation in the archaic graffiti. However we choose to offer the reading with the best attested direction.
The mutilated letter at right has a vertical stroke and leaves many possibilities open.
Creative Commons Attributions-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
All citation, reuse or distribution of this work must contain a link back to DOI: http://doi.org/10.6092/UNIBO/IGCYRGVCYR and the filename (IGCyr000000 or GVCyr000), as well as the year of consultation.
