Support: Fragmentary foot and bottom of Attic black-glazed ware bolsal (w: 0.085 × h: 0.018; diameter 0.11).

Layout: Scratched under the bottom, to be read from the centre.

Letters: 0.005-0.008; open omega.

Date: Last quarter of the fifth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1975 Cyrene ➚: agora, under West Stoa.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A75 G3 53. 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.

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Perhaps τὠπόλλωνι or τὠπόλλωνος, but this remains very uncertain, the more so that such dedications of vases were found in Apollo's sanctuary rather than on the agora.

The dating of the ceramics being the last quarter of the fifth century, the graffito might be somewhat later and would offer one of the earliest instances of omega, thus giving a clue for the adoption of the standard alphabet.

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