Support: Six adjacent fragments of a late-Rhodian ware cup (diameter 0.12).

Layout: Graffito on the inner wall, to be read from outside.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: First half of the sixth century BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found in 1960 at Cyrene ➚: agora, in a sounding beneath future Temple of Asklepios, in the same area as IGCyr000450².

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A60 B2c. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[Untel] fils d'Apios pour Ophélès.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of Apios for Opheles.

Italian translation

[Il tale] figlio di Apios per Opheles.

Commentary

Gasperini's assembling and reading seem cautious and meaningful. Opheles is plausibly also mentioned in IGCyr003300². Parisi Presicce 2007 is right in emphasizing that the archaeological context of the find does not allow to relate the cup with the neighbouring building, whereas his doubts about the very reading and thus about the mention of Opheles are by far less convincing (see Marengo 2016, p. 167.

Grammatically speaking, instead of a lost personal name followed with Apios as a father's name (our translation), another formulation would be possible, if the lost word was δεκάτα. However, the dedication of a tithe to a minor deity such as Opheles is rather unlikely.

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr000800 Dedication to Opheles

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