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

Name (?), perhaps dedication

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1134002
Trismegistos ID: 738675

Source description

Support: Fragment of bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware open vase (w: 0.03 × h: 0.028 × d: 0.006).

Layout: Scratched on the outside.

Letters: 0.008-0.014; gamma with short upper bar, epsilon with three nearly equal bars.

Date: Perhaps fourth or third centuries BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1993 by A. Santucci at Cyrene: agora, area of the Temple of Demeter and Kore.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A93 F2 518. 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.

Bibliography

Marengo 2010, p. 155, n. 32 fig. 6, 32, whence SEG, 60.1841.8; IGCyr 113400 .

Text

Interpretive

[---]ΑΓΕ[---]
[---]Τ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΑΓΕ[---]
[---]Τ[---]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

This fragment is too small to allow a ceramologic dating. Its lettering is very awkward. It might be rather archaic, hence at line 1 the beginning of a personal name in Ἁγε- or even Ἁγη- should not be excluded.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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