Dedication (?)

IGCyr111800

Trismegistos ID: 738659

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A93 CA2 25.

Support

Foot of an Attic black-glazed ware cup (cup type C) (0.04;0.003; diameter 0.085).

Layout

Scratched under the foot, to be read from the center.

Letters

0.009-0.013.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Early fifth century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found in 1993 by A. Santucci in Cyrene : agora , Sanctuary of the Anax .

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. 5; fig. 2.5, whence SEG , 60.1841.2. Cf. Santucci, 1998 , pp. 525, 530.

Text

Τιμ(- - -)

Apparatus

French translation

Tim <--->  (a consacré cette coupe.)

English translation

Tim <--->  (dedicated this cup.)

Italian translation

Tim <--->  (ha dedicato questa coppa.)

Commentary

This sherd was found along with those bearing IGCyr088400 and IGCyr088500 (personal communication by A. Santucci).

The letters can be interpreted as the beginning of many personal names, such as Τιμαγόρας, Τίμαρχος, Τιμῶναξ.

Another possibility of expansion for those three letters would be the word τιμά, usual in price inscriptions; however Marengo excludes that because no numeral follows.

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