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

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EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0043002
Trismegistos ID: 738147

Source description

Support: Fragmentary black-glazed ware kalathos (diameter 0.07).

Layout: Scratched under foot.

Letters: 0.004-0.006; tailless upsilon.

Date: Perhaps second half of sixth century BC

Findspot: Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira: archaic votive depositIII level 7.

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 editors (CDL).

Bibliography

Boardman – Hayes 1973, p. 85, n. 2195 (dr.); IGCyr 004300 .

Text

Interpretive

πύα<λος?>   ←

Diplomatic

ΠΥΑ   ←

Apparatus

1: πύα<λος> Boardman – Hayes 1973; πυ«λ» Boardman – Hayes 1973

French translation

Bassin pour le bain (?)

English translation

Bath tub (?)

Italian translation

Bacino per il bagno (?)

Commentary

The reading πύαλoς would give an interesting word. However, what has a bath-tub to do with a kalathos?

The lettering might be Cyrenaean as well as Attic.

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