Support: Five adjoining fragments of a cup, Laconian ware (w: 0.059- × h: 0.048 × d: 0.003; diameter 0.14).

Layout: Graffito on outside, under rim.

Letters: 0.004-0.0056; archaic shape of letters: three-strokes iota, san as sibilant.

Date: Ca. 550 BC (monument type, lettering).

Findspot: Found at Cyrene ➚: agora, under the future Augusteum.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Latest seen by Oscar Mei after 1997 in Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Editor's transcription.

French translation

Arkhaios A[---].

English translation

Archaios A[---].

Italian translation

Archaios A[---].

Arabic translation

أرخيوس [---].

Commentary

The second word might be either the verb ἀνέθηκε or the name of the deity to whom the vase was dedicated or even (but less plausibly) the father's name of the dedicant.

Mei 2013, pp. 68-69 ascribes the vase to the 'painter of Hunting'.

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Fig. 1. Photograph of both sides of igcyr000400 Dedication

Fig. 2. Drawing of both sides of igcyr000400 Dedication

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