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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name of an ostracised man on ostrakon

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0820002
Trismegistos ID: 738388

Source description

Support: At least eight fragments pasted together of a sherd of beige clay from a big close-shaped vase (w: 0.065 × h: 0.04 × d: 0.008).

Layout: Scratched on two lines inscribed on the outer side.

Letters: 0.007; calice-shaped upsilon with very short tail, slightly slanting strokes of sigma.

Date: First half of fourth century BC (lettering, textual context).

Findspot: Found in 1993 by Bacchielli at Cyrene: in a sounding on the agora, amongst a refill layer near the Sanctuary of the Anax.

Place of origin: Cyrene.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Bacchielli 1994, p. 260, n. 10 (ph; dr.), and Dobias-Lalou, BE, 1996.551, whence SEG, 44.1540, 2; IGCyr 082000 .

Cf. Berthelot 2020, pp. 98-101; Rosamilia 2023, pp. 57-58 (typology, date), p. 390, number 118 (text).

Text

Interpretive

Φίλων
Λύσιος

Diplomatic

ΦΙΛΩΝ
ΛΥΣΙΟΣ

French translation

Philôn fils de Lysis.

English translation

Philon son of Lysis.

Italian translation

Philon figlio di Lysis.

Commentary

See commentary at IGCyr0819002.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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