Caption

IGCyr113900

Trismegistos ID: 738692

Source Description

Repository

British Museum, GR 1866.4-15.233.

Support

Bronze strigil handle, broken along the edge of the spoon and at the opposite end (0.09; 0.019-0.024;0.02-0.025).

Layout

Stamped in a rectangular area (0.037; 0.003;).

Letters

0.002; small dotted theta, slightly larger omicron and omega, all three circular letters somehow higer on the lines, symmetrical nu.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

330-300 B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found by G. Dennis between 1864 and 1866 probably at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in London : British Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from object (CDL).

Bibliography

Newton, 1873 ; Walters, 1899 , p. 49, n. 326; Dobias-Lalou, 2010 , (with ph.), whence SEG , 60.1842 .

Text

τριακατίων ἆθλον

Apparatus

French translation

Récompense des triakatioi (i.e. éphèbes).

English translation

Award of the triakatioi (i.e. ephebes).

Italian translation

Ricompensa dei triakatioi (i.e. efebi).

Arabic translation

جائزة الترياكاتيوي (إفيبس).

Commentary

The provenance of the strigil is not quite sure: Dennis brought to England objects from cemeteries of Euesperides, Cyrene, Taucheira and Ptolemais. However, the local name of the ephebes, τριακάτιοι, being up to now attested for Cyrene only, it seems most likely that the strigil came from the main city of the Pentapolis where strigils are mentioned in IGCyr100700.

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