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IGCyr119400

Trismegistos ID: 738743

Source Description

Repository

Cyrene Museum, 109.

Support

Fragment of a white marble circular basin, carefully polished with inner side of bottom pricked (0.10; 0.08; -).

Layout

Inscribed on the inner side of the belly (high 0.03), to be read from outside.

Letters

0.025; no serifs, rather small omicron, neatly slantering sigma.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Second half of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found before 1979 at Cyrene : exact findspot unrecorded.

Last recorded Location

Seen by C.Dobias-Lalou in 1979 in Shahat , Cyrene Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from stone (CDL).

Bibliography

Not previously published.

Text

[---]  +ος [---] 

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

The vestige of letter before omicron might be the upper part of a iota but also of other letters.

The style of lettering and layout is quite similar with IGCyr012400 and IGCyr012700, hence the proposed date.

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