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

Name

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr1126002
Trismegistos ID: 738667

Source description

Support: Foot and bottom of a small Attic black-glazed ware bowl (w: 0.03 × h: 0.025 × d: 0.003; diameter 0.065).

Layout: Graffito on outer part of the foot, to be read from the center.

Letters: 0.003-0.006; smaller omicron.

Date: Second half of fifth century BC (context, lettering).

Findspot: Found in 1975 at Cyrene: agora, under the West Stoa.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Cyrene Museum, Storeroom of the Italian missions, A75 A2 154. Observed by R. Leone between 1997 and 2005 in Shahat: Storeroom of the Italian missions. Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Editor's transcription from photograph.

Bibliography

Marengo 2010, p. 152, n.16, fig. 3, 16, whence SEG, 60.1841.4; IGCyr 112600 .

Text

Interpretive

[---?] Κρητό[ς]

Diplomatic

[---?]ΚΡΗΤΟ[.]

French translation

[Untel] fils de Krès (ou) Propriété de Krès.

English translation

[So-and-so] son of Kres (or) Belonging to Kres.

Italian translation

[Un tale] figlio di Kres (o) Appartenente a Kres.

Commentary

A man listed in IGCyr0147002 (fifth century BC) is also son of Κρής.

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Maps

Cyrene general plan

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Cyrene agora

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