Support: Fragment of the rim of a cup with black-glazed band on top (w: 0.017 × h: 0.02).

Layout: Scratched on the outside.

Letters: 0.006 to 0.008; three-stroke iota, san for sibilant.

Date: Perhaps sixth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found between 2004 and 2007 by M. Luni 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

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

The possibility, suggested by Marengo and followed by SEG, that the letters should be read from right to left might be acceptable because the three-stroke iota has no well fixed orientation in the archaic graffiti. However we choose to offer the reading with the best attested direction.

The mutilated letter at right has a vertical stroke and leaves many possibilities open.

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