Trademark

IGCyr112660

Trismegistos ID: 738668

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A68 C 500.

Support

Black-glazed ware bolsal, with complete foot (height 0.092; diameter 0.17).

Layout

Scratched under foot (diameter 0.115), probably to be read from centre.

Letters

0.01; symmetrical nu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Last quarter of fifth century B.C. (context, lettering)

Findspot

Found in 1968 at Cyrene : agora , under West Stoa .

Last recorded Location

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. 152, n.18, fig. 3, 18.

Text

ΝΙ

Apparatus

1 Marengo, 2010  ΝΙ (left-to-right, if read from the centre) : Marengo, 2010  ΙΝ (right-to-left, if read from outside)

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Due to the date of the ceramics and the shape of letter nu, a right-to-left reading seems less plausible than the left-to-right one, which we choose to edit. However this remains an undecided question for trademark of type 15B at Johnston, 1979 , pp. 104, 198 and Johnston, 2006 , pp. 84-85.

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