Repository
Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A75 G3 519.
Support
Fragment of the bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware open vase (0.032; 0.03;0.004).
Layout
Scratched under the foot in one approximately diametrical line.
Letters
0.004-0.01; awkward curves in omicron and rho, gamma with rather short horizontal bar, theta with one oblique bar, sigma slim and high, abuting against the rim of foot.
Place of Origin
Findspot.
Date
First half of fifth century B.C. (context, lettering)
Findspot
Found by L. Bacchielli in 1975 at Cyrene pleiades; HGL : agora , North-West corner .
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..
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. 33, fig. 6.33, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 60.1841.9.
Peithagoras.
Peithagoras.
Peithagoras.
Although the fragment is too small to allow a ceramological datation, its inventory number shows its provenance from a sounding in the area of the retaining wall on which the hestiatorion of the first half of the fifth century (see Bacchielli, 1981 Bacchielli, L., 1981, L'agorà di Cirene. L'area settentrionale del lato Ovest della platea inferiore, I.1, Monografie di archeologia libica15, Roma - see in bibliography , pp. 43-50) was built. That fits the lettering well.
The personal name may be that of a dedicant; anyway, the sherd is surely not an ostrakon like IGCyr081900, IGCyr082000, IGCyr082100 and IGCyr082200 (see the discussion at 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. 140-144).
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