Name (?), perhaps dedication
IGCyr113400
Trismegistos ID: 738675
Source Description
Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A93 F2 518.
Support
Fragment of bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware open vase (0.03; 0.028;0.006).
Layout
Scratched on the outside.
Letters
0.008-0.014; gamma with short upper bar, epsilon with three nearly equal bars.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
Perhaps fourth or third centuries B.C. (lettering)
Findspot
Found in 1993 by A. Santucci at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , area of the Temple of Demeter and Kore .
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. 155, n. 32 fig. 6, 32, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1841.8.
Apparatus
French translation
Intraduisible.
English translation
Not usefully translatable.
Italian translation
Intraducibile.
Arabic translation
غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد
Commentary
This fragment is too small to allow a ceramologic dating. Its lettering is very awkward. It might be rather archaic, hence at line 1 the beginning of a personal name in Ἁγε- or even Ἁγη- should not be excluded.
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