Support: Fragmentary foot of cup, Attic black-glazed ware (w: 0.075).

Layout: Graffito under foot, to be read from the centre.

Letters: 0.018.

Date: Ca. 550 BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1928 at Cyrene ➚: Sanctuary of Apollo, under the Trajanic Baths.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

French translation

[Un tel, fils] de Timokhos à [Apollon].

English translation

[So-and-so, son] of Timochos for [Apollo].

Italian translation

[Il tale, figlio] di Timochos ad [Apollo].

Commentary

For the name Τίμουχος, see Dobias-Lalou 1988.

As complete denominations with name and father's name are very rare in such graffiti of dedication, we might also imagine another formulation: instead of a lost personal name followed by Timochos as a father's name, the word δεκάτα might have been lost and the reading would then be '(tithe) of Timouchos for Apollo'.

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