Dedication

IGCyr110700

Trismegistos ID: 738637

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, inv. number unknown.

Support

Fragment of the rim of a cup with a black-glazed rule above (0.03; 0.022; -).

Layout

Scratched on the outside.

Letters

0.005 to 0.009; awkwardly cut, alpha with bar inclined to the left, nearly square omicron with a projecting stroke at lefthand, san as sibilant.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps sixth century B.C. (context, lettering)

Findspot

Found by M. Luni between 2004 and 2007 at Cyrene : 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 , p. 35, n. 6 (= Marengo, 2010 , p. 129, n. 6), whence SEG , 58.1839.6.

Text

[---] ΣΟΤΑ[---] 

Apparatus

1 Marengo, 2008  σοτα (left-to-right) : Marengo, 2008  ατος (right-to-left)

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

No preserved character offers an orientation indicating clearly the direction of reading; however, the tau is somewhat inclined to the right, giving a clue for a left-to-right orientation. In this view, Marengo suggested the beginning of a personal name such as Σωτάδας. The question should remain open, due to the very fragmentary condition of the vase, which however probably belongs to the same series of dedications that IGCyr110100 and followings.

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