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Inscriptions of Greek Cyrenaica | Greek Verse Inscriptions of Cyrenaica

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EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1072702
Trismegistos ID: 738601

Source description

Support: Fragment of foot of a cup of Attic black-glazed ware (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Scratched on the bottom in three different liness with different letter-heights.

Letters: Height not measured, b) having the smallest and c) the largest.

Date: Fourth century BC (lettering).

Findspot: Found by S. Stucchi between 1961 and 1965 at Cyrene: agora.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Seen by L. Gasperini before 1965 at Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Gasperini 1967, p. 168, n. 13, fig. 197 (= Gasperini – Arnaldi – Marengo 2008, p. 80, n. 13, fig. 13); IGCyr 107270 .

Text

Interpretive

a
[---]ΙΕΝΑΙ
b
ΟΡΜΑΘ[---]
c
ΙΚΩΟ[---]

Diplomatic

a
[---]ΙΕΝΑΙ
b
ΟΡΜΑΘ[---]
c
ΙΚΩΟ[---]

French translation

Intraduisible.

English translation

Not usefully translatable.

Italian translation

Intraducibile.

Arabic translation

غير قابل للترجمة بشكل جيد

Commentary

Gasperini gave no interpretation of this item. C. Dobias-Lalou adds the following observations: 1) The fragmentary words might belong to a trade mark, for there might be in b) a form of the verb ὁρμάω. 2) The tall hasta at the beginning of c might be a separator rather than an iota. If so, the name of the island and city of Cos would be a possibility. 3) The first letter of a) is perhaps no iota, but rather part of another letter. Without autopsy it would be hazardous to guess more.

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Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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