Support: Fragment of the bottom of an Attic black-glazed ware open vase (w: 0.032 × h: 0.03 × d: 0.004).

Layout: Scratched under the foot in one approximately diametrical line.

Letters: 0.004-0.01; awkward curves in omicron and rho, gamma with rather short horizontal bar, theta with one oblique bar, sigma slim and high, abuting against the rim of foot.

Date: First half of fifth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by L. Bacchielli in 1975 at Cyrene ➚: agora, North-West corner.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A75 G3 519. 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

Peithagoras.

English translation

Peithagoras.

Italian translation

Peithagoras.

Commentary

Although the fragment is too small to allow a ceramological datation, its inventory number shows its provenance from a sounding in the area of the retaining wall on which the hestiatorion of the first half of the fifth century (see Bacchielli 1981, pp. 43-50) was built. That fits the lettering well.

The personal name may be that of a dedicant; anyway, the sherd is surely not an ostrakon like IGCyr081900², IGCyr082000², IGCyr082100² and IGCyr082200² (see the discussion at Marengo 2010, pp. 140-144).

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