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).