Support: Foot of an Attic black-glazed ware skyphos (diameter 0.14).

Layout: Circular graffito under the foot; to be read from the center.

Letters: 0.014-0.02; sloping bar of alpha, slantering sigma.

Date: 480-425 BC (context).

Findspot: Found in 1993 at Cyrene ➚: on the agora, Sanctuary of the Anax.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

(scil. J'appartiens) à l'Anax.

English translation

(scil. Belonging) to the Anax.

Italian translation

(scil. Appartenente) all'Anax.

Arabic translation

ملكاً لأناكس

Commentary

The deity named Ἄναξ was hypothetically identified with Aristeus by Santucci. Dobias-Lalou's proposal to identify him with Castor (Dobias-Lalou 2006, pp. 94-95; SEG, 56.2024) is now obsolete (see Dobias-Lalou 2016, p. 171).

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