Support: Komast cup, Attic black figure ware (diameter 0.164).

Layout: Graffito along inside of rim.

Letters: 0.006-0.009; epsilon with vertical stroke protruding below, quite dissymmetrical nu, one rho with very short tail, small four-strokes sigma, no ksi.

Date: Ca. 500 BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira ➚: archaic votive deposit.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by J. Boardman between 1963 and 1965 at Tūkrah. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

Cadeau de Kresa à Xenandros.

English translation

A present of Kresa to Xenandros.

Italian translation

Regalo di Kresa per Xenandros.

Arabic translation

هدية كريسا لكسيناندروس.

Commentary

The inferior edge of E and the whole K are clear from the photograph, allowing to restore ἔδōκε. The new reading fits the type of cup better than a dedication to Demeter and/or Kore, which is the bulk of the other finds. Boardman noted that the script might be Attic. If so, we should have a spelling Χσένανδρος, whereas a kappa seems unescapable here. On the other hand, a form Κρε͂σ(σ)α for the woman's name would not be Attic. On the whole, this graffito seems to be rather Cyrenaican.

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