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IGCyr0019202
Trismegistos ID:
738118
Source description
Support: Krater dated 500/450 BC, Laconian ware (estimated diameter 0.4).
Layout: Scratched on the lip (width 0.105).
Letters: 0.023; alpha with oblique bar ending at bottom of right stroke, beta with very flat loops, open eta for short e, dissymmetrical nu, trident-shaped chi (see commentary).
Date: Between 500 and 450 BC (context, lettering).
Findspot: Found between 1963 and 1965 at Taucheira ➚: archaic votive deposit.
Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.
Text constituted from: Transcription from editors (HB).
Bibliography
Boardman – Hayes 1966, p. 168, n. 976 (ph. dr.); Dobias-Lalou 1970, pp. 252-253, number 1; Marengo 2010, pp. 20-23, whence SEG, 60.1848; IGCyr 001920 ➚. Cf. Dobias-Lalou 2015, pp. 69-70; Antonini 2016, pp. 45-46 and Dobias-Lalou, BE 2017.638; Marengo 2016, pp. 165-166.
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Apparatus
1: Ἀρχένβρ̣[οτ c. 1 - 2] Marengo 2010: ΑΡΧΗΝΒΑ Boardman – Hayes 1966; ΑΡΨΗΝΒΑ Boardman – Hayes 1966; Αρχην Βα̣[καλ?] Boardman – Hayes 1966 Anna Morpurgo Davies' suggestion; ΑΡΧΗΝΒ Dobias-Lalou 1970
French translation
Arkhembr[otos---].
English translation
Archembr[otos---].
Italian translation
Archembr[otos---].
Commentary
For this graffito, no convincing explanation was given before S.M. Marengo's one: she rightly pointed out that it could be read only with the trident-shape letter as a chi and eta as a short e, both attested in the archaic lettering of Rhodes, the more so that such a reading produces a typical Rhodian name. The use of nu instead of mu before beta is a hypercorrect feature, as well as the use of eta instead of epsilon.
It cannot be decided whether the graffito was cut in Rhodes and brought to Cyrenaica or cut in Cyrenaica by a Rhodian traveller. In both cases, the vase, a Laconian ware, had travelled more or less through the Mediterranean sea (contra Antonini 2016). As to the script, the present use of trident-shaped chi in a Rhodian context should be compared with two other examples found at Cyrene: in IGCyr1101002 the rest of the lettering is purely Cyrenaean, whereas IGCyr0004302 is too fragmentary to allow any classification.
The name, when complete, might have been at the genitive case for an owner's mark or at the nominative for a dedicant's name, so that the exact text-type escapes us.
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