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 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. 7 (= 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. 7), whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 58.1839.7.
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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