Support: Sherd from a closed vase of fine-ware (w: 0.045 × h: 0.045).

Layout: Incised before firing.

Letters: 0.03; an epsilon inclined to the left with oblique bars.

Date: Before sixth century BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found in 1964 in Wadi al Khalij ➚ (ancient Aziris?).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد

Commentary

Boardman mentioned only the epsilon, but on the photograph an oblique stroke follows it at left, forming part of another letter.

The sherd was collected during a brief visit and no archaeological context is available.

The provenance and type of ceramics are not clearly given by Boardman, who only judges that it might be earlier than ca. 631 BC (conventional date of the foundation of Cyrene). The mouth of Wadi Khalij might be the place called Aziris where the settlers, according to Herodotus' relation, remained during six years before being brought to Cyrene by Libyans.

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