Support: Three fragments of a black glaze ware plate, (estimated diameter 0.14): orange ware with perhaps unfinished black glaze forming circular spots.

Layout: Scratched under the bottom (fragment a); isolated lines, on the same fragment and on fragment c might be part of other lost graffiti.

Letters: Cut with a slender tip (0.008); alpha has a punct as a bar.

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

Findspot: Found in 2006 by J.-S. Caillou in the Port of Cyrene, later Apollonia ➚: at bottom of the so-called Kallikrateia Rock, to the North (see commentary).

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Apollonia Museum, Storeroom of the French Mission, 2006.55. Seen by C. Dobias-Lalou in 2010 at Sūsah, Apollonia Museum, Storeroom of the French Mission.

Text constituted from: Transcription from vase (CDL).

French translation

(scil. Offrande de) Nikias [---?].

English translation

(scil. Offering of) Nikias [---?].

Italian translation

(scil. Offerta di) Nikias [---?].

Commentary

As the fragment is broken just after the last letter read here, it is not clear whether a final letter should be restored, producing the nominative case, perhaps followed by other words. However a genitive of 'ownership' of the dedicant is quite plausible (see IGCyr118400²).

Like the latter, this vase was found in the fill below the altar bearing IGCyr114000². It is thus in clear relation with it.

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Fig. 1. Drawing of fragment a, outer face of igcyr118300 Dedication

Fig. 2. Drawing of 3 fragments, inner face of igcyr118300 Dedication

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