Dedication (?)

IGCyr110800

Trismegistos ID: 738638

Source Description

Repository

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

Support

Fragment of the rim of a cup with a narrow black-glazed band at the edge (0.038; 0.028; -).

Layout

Scratched on outside, to be read from above.

Letters

0.004 to 0.01; three-stroke iota, san as sibilant.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found 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. 7 (= Marengo, 2010 , p. 129, n. 7), whence SEG , 58.1839.7.

Text

[---?]  τοῖς [Διοσκό̄ροις]

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel] (a consacré ce vase) aux [Dioscures].

English translation

[So-and-so] (dedicated this vase) to the [Dioscuri].

Italian translation

[Il tale] (ha dedicated questo vaso) ai [Dioscuri].

Commentary

The name of the Dioscuri may be restored with confidence in this archaeological context: see at IGCyr110100.

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