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IGCyr134600

Trismegistos ID: 738893

Source Description

Support

On the rock-cut wall of an oikos (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Inscribed on the West wall, to be read from the inside.

Letters

0.13, 0.30: widely open horseshoe shaped omega.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps end of fifth of beginning of fourth century B.C. (lettering)

Findspot

Found between 2008 and 2012 by the Mission of Urbino at Cyrene : Southern Extra-Mural Sacred Zone , North-West of the Extra-Mural Temple of Demeter , in one of a series of oikoi.

Last recorded Location

First studied in 2012 by E. Rosamilia in situ.

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Gasparini-Rosamilia, 2016 , n. 14 (fig. 28).

Text

(vac.)Ω(vac.)

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد.

Commentary

This isolated letter, carefully and deeply cut, is no accidental graffito. However its meaning remains totally obscure. That it might be an abbreviation for the name of the Hero Opheles is a tentative idea of E. Rosamilia, which he cautiously did not push forward.

The proposed date relies on the very open shape of omega, which is known for the very beginning of the use of the Ionian alphabet at Cyrene.

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