Dedication

IGCyr118300

Trismegistos ID: 738731

Source Description

Repository

Apollonia Museum, Storeroom of the French Mission, 2006.55.

Support

Three fragments of a black glaze ware plate, (estimated diameter 0.14): orange ware with perhaps unfinished black glaze forming circular spots.

Layout

Scratched under the bottom (fragment a); isolated lines, on the same fragment and on fragment c might be part of other lost graffiti.

Letters

Cut with a slender tip (0.008); alpha has a punct as a bar.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps third century B.C. (lettering, context)

Findspot

Found in 2006 by J.-S. Caillou in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia : at bottom of the so-called Kallikrateia Rock , to the North (see commentary).

Last recorded Location

Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 at Sūsah, Apollonia Museum, Storeroom of the French Mission .

Text constituted from

Transcription from vase (CDL).

Bibliography

Caillou, 2010 , p. 182 (mention), whence SEG , 60.1831

Text

Νικία [---?] 

Apparatus

French translation

(Offrande de) Nikias  [---?] .

English translation

(Offering of) Nikias  [---?] .

Italian translation

(Offerta di) Nikias  [---?] .

Commentary

As the fragment is broken just after the last letter read here, it is not clear whether a final letter should be restored, producing the nominative case, perhaps followed by other words. However a genitive of 'ownership' of the dedicant is quite plausible (see IGCyr118400).

Like the latter, this vase was found in the fill below the altar bearing IGCyr114000. It is thus in clear relation with it.

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