Support: Fragment of a plate of Rhodian ware, bearing also IGCyr000300² (w: 0.18 × h: 0.08).

Layout: Graffito on the rim (width 0.06).

Letters: 0.004 to 0.02.

Date: Ca. 600 BC (context).

Findspot: Found before 1963 as a chance find at Taucheira ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen in 1965 by Boardman at Tūkrah: in the Tocra Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

English translation

Aponikas inscribed.

Italian translation

Aponikas ha iscritto.

Arabic translation

أبونيكاس نقش أو كتب

Commentary

The letters may be either Cyrenaean or Theran, so the graffito might have been scratched at either places (see also at IGCyr000300²).

The reading Ἀπονίκας is now conforted by another occurrence at IGCyr122400².

Antonini's idea that the penultimate preserved letter, instead of being a gamma, might be a chi with trident-shape is not sustainable (see photograph).

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Images

Fig. 1. View of igcyr000500 Artist's signature imitated

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr000500 Artist's signature imitated

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