Unclear
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
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 Marengo, S.M., 2010, Iscrizioni da nuovi scavi a Cirene, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene nell'antichità. Un cinquantennio di attività a Cirene della Missione Archeologica Italiana dell'Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Monografie di archeologia libica29, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica2, Roma, 139-156 - see in bibliography , p. 150, n. 3, fig. 1.3.
Text
Apparatus
1 θ also consonant with φ : Marengo, 2010 Marengo, S.M., 2010, Iscrizioni da nuovi scavi a Cirene, in M. Luni (ed.), Cirene nell'antichità. Un cinquantennio di attività a Cirene della Missione Archeologica Italiana dell'Università di Urbino "Carlo Bo", Monografie di archeologia libica29, Cirene Atene d'Africa: attività delle missioni archeologiche internazionali a Cirene e in Cirenaica2, Roma, 139-156 - see in bibliography 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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