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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Dedication (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1108002
Trismegistos ID: 738638

Source description

Support: Fragment of the rim of a cup with a narrow black-glazed band at the edge (w: 0.038 × h: 0.028).

Layout: Scratched on outside, to be read from above.

Letters: 0.004 to 0.01; three-stroke iota, san as sibilant.

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

Findspot: Found 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).

Bibliography

Marengo 2008, p. 35, n. 7 (= Marengo 2010, p. 129, n. 7), whence SEG, 58.1839.7; IGCyr 110800 .

Text

Interpretive

[---?] τοῖς [Διοσκό̄ροις]

Diplomatic

[---?]ΤΟΙΣ[...........]

French translation

[Untel] (scil. a consacré ce vase) aux [Dioscures].

English translation

[So-and-so] (scil. dedicated this vase) to the [Dioscuri].

Italian translation

[Il tale] (scil. ha dedicated questo vaso) ai [Dioscuri].

Commentary

The name of the Dioscuri may be restored with confidence in this archaeological context: see at IGCyr1101002.

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