IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name, probably dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1133002
Trismegistos ID: 738674

Source description

Support: Fragment of foot of an Attic black-glazed ware kantharos (height 0.035; diameter 0.056).

Layout: Scratched under the foot, to be read from outside.

Letters: 0.005-0.01; phi with flattened loop.

Date: Third quarter of the fourth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1968 at Cyrene: agora, under the West Stoa.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A68 C 515. Observed by L. Gasperini in 1969 in Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Observed by R. Leone between 1997 and 2005 at the same place. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Editor's transcription from photograph.

Bibliography

Marengo 2010, p. 154, n. 27, fig. 5, 27, whence SEG, 60.1841.7; IGCyr 113300 .

Text

Interpretive

Φιλοκ(- - -)

Diplomatic

ΦΙΛΟΚ

French translation

Philok(- - -).

English translation

Philok(- - -).

Italian translation

Philok(- - -).

Commentary

An abbreviated personal name as in IGCyr1130002, IGCyr1118002 and IGCyr1136002, probably the dedicant's name.

This abbreviated form might be completed into names such as Φιλόκαλος, Φιλοκλῆς, Φιλοκράτης or Φιλόκωμος, all already attested in Cyrenaica.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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