Support: Fragment of foot of a cup (Vicup type?) (height 0.028; diameter 0.08).

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

Letters: 0.01; uspilon with no tail.

Date: Second quarter of fifth century BC (context).

Findspot: Found in 1960 at Cyrene ➚: East of agora, under Temple of Asklepios.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A60 A1 517. 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

A trademark of type 15 A at Johnston 1979, pp. 75, 188 and Johnston 2006, pp. 50-51. As the most ancient known examples have an archaic Attic lambda the direction of reading is doubtless for those letters, which without parallel might also be read inverted.

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