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IGCyr111600

Trismegistos ID: 738657

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A77 C2 514.

Support

Fragment of the rim of an Attic black-glazed ware vase, perhaps a band cup. (0,023; 0,027;0,003).

Layout

Graffito on the outside of the fragment.

Letters

0,008, either crossed-theta of phi with large loop and non-projecting vertical stroke.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Between 550 and 525 B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found in 1977 at Cyrene : agora .

Last recorded Location

Observed by R. Leone between 1997 and 2005 in Shahat : Storeroom of the Italian missions .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Editor's transcription from photograph.

Bibliography

Marengo, 2010 , p. 150, n. 3, fig. 1.3.

Text

[---]  θ [---] .

Apparatus

1 θ : Marengo, 2010  Θ

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

It is impossible to decide between both letters; that shape of theta is attested in a series of archaic inscriptions such as IGCyr000100 and IGCyr000700, while a similar phi can be found in IGCyr000410 and IGCyr000800.

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