Support: Foot of an Attic black-glazed ware skyphos (diameter 0.126).

Layout: Circular graffito under foot, which is not glazed; to be read from the centre.

Letters: ca. 0.004; slightly slantering mu, upsilon without vertical stroke, slighly sloping bar of alpha.

Date: 450-425 BC (context).

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

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

French translation

Eurèmôn a consacré à l'Anax.

English translation

Euremon dedicated to the Anax.

Italian translation

Euremon ha dedicato all'Anax.

Arabic translation

إفريمون أًهْدَى (كرَّس شيء ما) لأناكس

Commentary

The deity named Ἄναξ was 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). Behind this generic denomination, some chtonian deity might be hidden.

The personal name shows no initial aspirate in this archaic spelling, thus a strong possibility for the compound name made from Εὐ- and -ρήμων 'eloquent', attested for the first time in Cyrenaica, but well-known elsewhere (see Bechtel 1917, p. 394; Minon – Genevrois – Niet Izquierdo – Réveilhac – Chuat – Chiricat – Garré 2023, p. 409).

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