Support: Fragment of the rim of an Attic black-glazed ware vase, perhaps a band cup. (w: 0,023 × h: 0,027 × d: 0,003).

Layout: Graffito on the outside of the fragment.

Letters: 0,008, either crossed-theta of phi with large loop and non-projecting vertical stroke.

Date: Between 550 and 525 BC (lettering, context).

Findspot: Found in 1977 at Cyrene ➚: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A77 C2 514. Observed by R. Leone between 1997 and 2005 in Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Editor's transcription from photograph.

Apparatus

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

It is impossible to decide between both letters; that shape of theta is attested in a series of archaic inscriptions such as IGCyr000100² and IGCyr000700², while a similar phi can be found in IGCyr000410² and IGCyr000800².

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Fig. 1. Face of igcyr111600 Unclear

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