IRCyr   Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica

A.29. Label? for a jar and Christian invocation

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.

Interpretive

a
Πολ̣ίαν̣θε̣
b
Ϲ̣ΑΤΙ ((figure)) ( vac. 3)
Κ(ύρι)ε βοήθ⸢ηϲ⸣ον τὸ̣ ΑΥΤΑ̣Τ̣ΗΛ̣ΗΚΗ
((crux)) ((crux)) π´ ((stop)) Λ ((stop)) ΥΙ II ((crux)) ((crux))
[---]Ι̣Λ̣[...]ϲ̣ [...] ὄγδοα̣ [---]

Diplomatic

a
ΠΟ.ΙΑ.Θ.
b
.ΑΤΙ figure       
ΚΕΒΟΗΘϹΗΟΝΤ.ΑΥΤ..Η.ΗΚΗ
Π Λ ΥΙII
[---]..[···].[···]ΟΓΔΟ.[---]

Apparatus

b.2: ΒΟΗΘϹΗΟΝ lapis

English 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)