IGCyr2 | GVCyr2
Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

Name (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0880502
Trismegistos ID: 738431

Source description

Support: Attic black-glazed ware lekanis; with lid of diameter 0.13.

Layout: Scratched under foot opposite IGCyr0880002; to be read from the centre.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: End of fifth to beginning of fourth century BC

Findspot: Found between 1952 and 1954 at Euesperides: in a house of area A.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Said to be already lost in 1998.

Text constituted from: Transcription from photograph (CDL).

Bibliography

Gill 1998 (for the support); IGCyr 088050 .

Text

Interpretive

Ἀγα̣ο̣[---?]

1 α vel λ | ο vel θ

Diplomatic

ΑΓ..[---?]

1 α vel λ | ο vel θ

Apparatus

French translation

Agath[---] (ou Aglo[---]?).

English translation

Agath[---] (or Aglo[---]?).

Italian translation

Agath[---] (o Aglo[---]?).

Commentary

Gill 1998 mentioned the presence of some letters, which he did not read; he suggested either 'an abbreviated personal name, the name of the type of vessel, or perhaps a comercial mark of some description'.

From the photograph, C. Dobias-Lalou catches some letters, leading to personal names. The most probable would be a name in ἀγαθ-. However this object having been brought from abroad we cannot exclude a non-Cyrenaean name; with an omicron as fourth letter, we might have a Rhodian name in Ἀγλου-. As Gill writes it, the vase was photographed before having been thouroughly cleaned and it is impossible to decide whether the name was abbreviated or cut extensively.

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