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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 pleiades; HGL : 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 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 , pp. 152-153, n. 19, fig. 4, 19.
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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