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Tithe

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1082002
Trismegistos ID: 738612

Source description

Support: Foot and bottom of a skyphos of Attic black-glazed ware (height 0.035; depth 0.04; diameter 0.065).

Layout: Scratched under bottom around the central dot.

Letters: 0.006 to 0.009.

Date: Ca. 450 BC (monument type).

Findspot: Found before 1987 at Cyrene: plausibly from the Sanctuary of Apollo.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, inv. number unknown. Seen by J.-J. Maffre in 1987 in Shahat: Cyrene Museum. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Maffre 2007, p. 181, n. 50, whence SEG, 57.2002, 15; IGCyr 108200 .

Text

Interpretive

Δεκάτ[α]

Diplomatic

ΔΕΚΑΤ[.]

French translation

Dîme.

English translation

Tithe.

Italian translation

Decima.

Commentary

Although the bottom is fragmentary, there seems to be no space for any additional word.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene sanctuary of Apollo

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