Support: Bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware skyphos (height 0.026; depth 0.04; diameter 0.062).

Layout: Scratched under the bottom; to be read from the center.

Letters: 0.004.

Date: Fourth century BC

Findspot: Found before 1935 at Cyrene ➚: North of the Altar of Artemis.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by J.-J. Maffre before 1990 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editors.

French translation

Dîme d'Apollon.

English translation

Apollo's tithe.

Italian translation

Decima di Apollo.

Commentary

This complete inscription shows clearly one of the two formulations of the tithe: nominative of the word 'tithe' and genitive of the god's name, who becomes the owner of the dedicated object. On the whole, this formulation is a sort of caption.

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