Description: Large ceramic storage jar.
Text: Stamped, a. on the rim; b. on the belly. A crude figure with arms outstretched has been drawn in
outline to the right of line 1 and extends downwards over lines 2 and 3.
Letters: The letters are formed by a series of roundels impressed on the clay when wet; a: 0.03-0.04; b: very variable in size, up
to 0.12; cursive epsilon and lunate sigma.
Date: Fourth to sixth centuries CE
Findspot:
Apollonia:
'Palace of the Dux'; found in 1962.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Apollonia Museum, 2008.
Apparatus
b.2: ΒΟΗΘϹΗΟΝ lapisEnglish translation
Translation source: Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003
(a): Oh Polianthos.
(b): . . . ] Lord help ?80 [ . . . ] eighth [ . . .
Commentary
b. line 3: Possibly a figure π = 80; if so this line may have given the content of the container.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1976, 36, whence SEG 27.1176; discussed by Hansen, 1986 141-42, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique, 1988.1026, SEG 36.1462; Reynolds-Ward-Perkins-Goodchild, 2003, 103.2.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 2. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 3. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 4. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 5. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 6. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 7. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 8. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 9. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 10. Face (2008, H.Walda)
Fig. 11. Face (2008, H.Walda)