Support: Two non adjacent fragments of plain rimmed cup, Attic black-glazed ware (diameter c. 0.20).

Layout: Scratched letters written upside-down on lower part of outside.

Letters: 0.003-0.006.

Date: 500-480 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 in 1965 at Tūkrah. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Untel) a consacré sur la dîme à Demeter [---].

English translation

(scil. So-and-so) dedicated from the tithe to Demeter [---].

Italian translation

(scil. Il tale) ha dedicato dalla decima a Demetra [---].

Commentary

τᾶς δεκάτας should be rather a gen. sing. 'from the tithe' than an acc. plur., for this word is usually only a singular.

This graffito is the only clear instance of a tithe for Demeter. IGCyr00380² might be another one, IGCyr003910² is less clear.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of igcyr004200-fgta Tithe for Demeter

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr004200-fgtb Tithe for Demeter

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