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IGCyr112700

Trismegistos ID: 738669

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A75 G3 53.

Support

Fragmentary foot and bottom of Attic black-glazed ware bolsal (0.085; 0.018; -; diameter 0.11).

Layout

Scratched under the bottom, to be read from the centre.

Letters

0.005-0.008; open omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

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

Findspot

Found in 1975 Cyrene : agora , under West Stoa .

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 , pp. 152-153, n. 19, fig. 4, 19.

Text

(vac.)ΤΩ[---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Perhaps τὠπόλλωνι or τὠπόλλωνος, but this remains very uncertain, the more so that such dedications of vases were found in Apollo's sanctuary rather than on the agora.

The dating of the ceramics being the last quarter of the fifth century, the graffito might be somewhat later and would offer one of the earliest instances of omega, thus giving a clue for the adoption of the standard alphabet.

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