Support: Fragment of a black-glazed ware vase (height 0.028).

Layout: Scratched on the wall.

Letters: 0.007

Date: Perhaps fourth of third century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found by I. Gismondi in 1957 at Cyrene ➚: inside or near (?) the Greek Theatre.

Place of origin: Cyrene ➚: probably Sanctuary of Apollo.

Last recorded location: Seems to be lost.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor (CDL).

Apparatus

French translation

[---] dîme [---].

English translation

[---] tithe [---].

Italian translation

[---] decima [---].

Commentary

This sherd is known only from a sketchbook of the architect Gismondi, who resumed in 1957 for only one month the excavations he had conducted before World War II. The sherd is mentioned amongst other fragments found in a rock-cut chamber, the function and place of which are quite unclear. It seems plausible that the vase offered as a tithe was originally deposited inside the neighbouring sanctuary of Apollo.

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