IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

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EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0024002
Trismegistos ID: 738126

Source description

Support: Cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter 0.63).

Layout: Scratched under the base.

Letters: Height unknown; alpha with oblique bar, tailless upsilon.

Date: Ca. 500 BC

Findspot: Found between 1928 and 1929 at Cyrene: Sanctuary of Apollo, Temple of Artemis (2nd phase).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by L. Pernier between 1928 and 1929. Lost since 2011 (see commentary)..

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

Bibliography

Pernier 1931, p. 212 (ph.), whence SEG, 9.318; IGCyr 002400 . Cf. Dobias-Lalou 1970, p. 248, n. 16; Ensoli 2012, p. 241, fig. 13.

Text

Interpretive

ΕΥΚΑ

Diplomatic

ΕΥΚΑ

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمه بشكل جيد

Commentary

Meaning not understandable. A trade-mark? An abbreviation of εὖ and κα(λῶς) or of εὔκα(ιρος)?

Found in a thesauron inside the pronaos of the 2nd-phase Artemision, this sherd was part of the 'treasure of Benghazi', which has been stolen in 2011 at the National Commercial Bank at Benghazi, as we now know from Ensoli 2012.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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