Support: Black-glazed ware Apulian amphora: end of fourth or first decades of third century BC (total height 0.35; mouth: diameter 0.174; belly: diameter 0.229; foot: diameter 0.122).

Layout: Scratched after firing under the foot.

Letters: 0.009; slanting sigma, widely open omega.

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

Findspot: Found at an unknown place: part of a collection of Cyrenaican objects of unknown provenance.

Place of origin: Cyrenaica.

Last recorded location: Antiquarium Arborense, inv. number unknown. Seen before 1994 by R. Zucca (and possibly by L. Gasperini) in Oristano: Antiquarium Arborense. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

Parméniskos fils d'Hèrostratos.

English translation

Parmeniskos son of Herostratos.

Italian translation

Parmeniskos figlio di Herostratos.

Commentary

Gasperini suggests that the amphora was deposited in Parmeniskos' tomb.

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