Support: Fragmentary black-glazed ware dish decorated with palmettes (diameter maximum 0.14).

Layout: Scratched a) on upper right; b) at left; c) beneath, at break.

Letters:

Date: 350-320 BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found in 1963 at Taucheira ➚ strewn on the 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 previous editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

a) Sitarkhos, un vagin, une verge.

b) et c) intraduisibles.

English translation

a) Sitarchos, a vagina, a penis.

b) and c) not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

a) Sitarchos, una vagina, un pene.

b) e c) intraducibili.

Commentary

Boardman rightly interpreted a) as a pederastic graffito, although puzzled by the proper name at the beginning. As for its reading, a sigma is written above chi and was probably intended to replace the other one, written at end of the name, but conflicting with the kappa of κύσθος. Evidently, a lettering ΧΣ for ξ should be anachronistic, both in consideration of the date of the ceramics and beside a psi.

If inverting two letters, we get the personal name Σίταρχος, which is already attested at Eretria.

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr004310 Pederastic acclamation

Fig. 2. Drawing of igcyr004310 Pederastic acclamation

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