Support: Fragment of a kylix, Attic black-glazed ware (dimensions not registered).

Layout: Scratched under the rim on the outer side.

Letters: 0.006. The 2nd letter seems more likely to be a san than a mu; the photograph shows a very strange ductus for the 4th letter, interpreted by Gasperini as the trident-shape letter.

Date: Perhaps sixth century BC

Findspot: Found in 1958 at Cyrene ➚: agora, in a sounding under the North-East corner of the West Stoa.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A58 T1. 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

If we follow Gasperini's interpretation of the fourth letter, it is the third occurrence in Cyrenaica of a trident-shaped letter. In IGCyr110100² and in IGCyr001920², it is used as a chi, whereas the cross-shaped chi was the most frequent in the region. Marengo 2010 has shown that this rare shape is of Rhodian origin. The letter before it might not be a mu and its shape fits a san perfectly. So we propose to divide those poor letters into a name end and a word (or name) beginning.

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