Support: Bronze strigil handle, broken along the edge of the spoon and at the opposite end (w: 0.09 × h: 0.019-0.024 × d: 0.02-0.025).

Layout: Stamped in a rectangular area (w: 0.037 × h: 0.003).

Letters: 0.002; small dotted theta, slightly larger omicron and omega, all three circular letters somehow higer on the lines, symmetrical nu.

Date: 330-300 BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by G. Dennis between 1864 and 1866 probably at Cyrene ➚: exact findspot unrecorded.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: British Museum, GR 1866.4-15.233. Observed by C. Dobias-Lalou in London: British Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from object (CDL).

French translation

Récompense des triakatioi (i.e. éphèbes).

English translation

Award of the triakatioi (i.e. ephebes).

Italian translation

Ricompensa dei triakatioi (i.e. efebi).

Arabic translation

جائزة الترياكاتيوي (إفيبس).

Commentary

The provenance of the strigil is not quite sure: Dennis brought to England objects from cemeteries of Euesperides, Cyrene, Taucheira and Ptolemais. However, the local name of the ephebes, τριακάτιοι, being up to now attested for Cyrene only, it seems most likely that the strigil came from the main city of the Pentapolis where strigils are mentioned in IGCyr100700².

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Fig. 1. View of igcyr103900 Caption of a strigil

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