Price

IGCyr088000

Trismegistos ID: 738430

Source Description

Support

Attic black-glazed ware lekanis; with lid (diameter 0.13).

Layout

Scratched under foot opposite IGCyr088050, to be read from outside.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

End of fifth to beginning of fourth century B.C.

Findspot

Found between 1952 and 1954 at Euesperides : in a house of area A .

Present Location

Said to be already lost in 1998.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

Gill, 1998 , whence SEG , 48.2049.

Text

𐅂 (δραχμά) Δ||

Apparatus

French translation

1 drachme la douzaine.

English translation

1 drachma per dozen.

Italian translation

1 dracma alla dozzina.

Commentary

The lekanis was found broken into some 25 fragments between the last floor of the house and the ashy layer that covers a large part of the upper city and also of the lower city and probably related to a destruction in the early fourth century.

About this isolated instance of the Attic notation of a pice through acrophonic numbers, see Dobias-Lalou, 2017 , p. 200, footnote 50.

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