Support: Fragment of the rim of a cup with a black-glazed rule (w: 0.037 × h: 0.0175).

Layout: Scartched on the outside.

Letters: 0.003 (omicron) to 0.009 (mu); three strokes iota, mu much longer to the left than to the right, san as sibilant, rho with a short oblique stroke under loop.

Date: Sixth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by M. Luni between 2004 and 2007 at Cyrene ➚: temple of the Dioscuri on the Acropolis ridge (once said "tempio ipetrale").

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, inv. number unknown. Studied by M. Luni after 2004 at Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Not observed by IGCyr team

Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (SMM).

Apparatus

French translation

[---]iros m'[a consacré.]

English translation

[---]iros [dedicated] me.

Italian translation

[---]iros mi [ha dedicato].

Commentary

On the assumption that this fragment is parallel to IGCyr110100² and others found together, a restoration was proposed by Marengo. For the second character, she also considered reading a qoppa, the small oblique stroke below being then accidental. However this seems less plausible than a rho because we have here a vertical stroke with a loop appended at right; for a similar rho, see IGCyr003800².

For the mu following a separation mark, the pronoun με seems very plausible if followed by the verb of dedication; the beginning of a personal name, given as another possibility, seems improbable, for fathers' names are not given in such archaic dedications.

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