Trademark

IGCyr113403

Trismegistos ID: 738678

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A60 A1 517.

Support

Fragment of foot of a cup (Vicup type?) (height 0.028; diameter 0.08).

Layout

Scratched under the foot, to be read either from the center or from the outside.

Letters

0.01; uspilon with no tail.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second quarter of fifth century B.C. (context)

Findspot

Found in 1960 at Cyrene : East of agora , under Temple of Asklepios .

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. 151, n. 14, fig. 3, 14.

Text

ΛΥ

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

A trademark of type 15 A at Johnston, 1979 , pp. 75, 188 and Johnston, 2006 , pp. 50-51. As the most ancient known examples have an archaic Attic lambda the direction of reading is doubtless for those letters, which without parallel might also be read inverted.

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