Repository
Athens National Archaeological Museum, 2145.
Support
Ridged black-glazed ware amphora with reliefs (Plakettenvase); from Egypt (-; 0.445; -).
Layout
Three graffiti: a) on inside of mouth, under rim; b) on middle of neck; c) under foot.
Letters
Height unknown.
Place of Origin
Uncertain
Date
Ca. 280 B.C. (monument-type)
Findspot
Said to come from Cyrene pleiades; HGL , exact findspot unknown.
Last recorded Location
Seen in 1997 by Zervoudaki with help of Ch. Kritzas at Athens : Athens National Archaeological Museum .
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Zervoudaki, 1997 Zervoudaki, I., 1997, Ῥαβδωτὰ ἀγγεῖα μὲ ἔκτυπα ἐμβλήματα καὶ μελανόγραφες ὑδρίες Hadra ἀπὸ τὶς συλλογὲς τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ Ἀρχαιολογικοῦ Μουσείου, in Ὑπουργεῖο Πολιτισμοῦ. ΚΕ΄ Ἐφορεία Προιστορικῶν καὶ Κλασικῶν Ἀρχαιοτήτων. Ἑλληνιστικὴ Κεραμικὴ ἀπὸ τὴν Κρήτη, Χανία (Chania), 107-146 - see in bibliography , pp. 109-115, fig. 4 and 13, p. 140, n. 25, whence SEG Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, Leiden, then Amsterdam, 1923-1971, then 1979- - see in bibliography , 48.2062bis.
a. 1 Zervoudaki, 1997 Zervoudaki, I., 1997, Ῥαβδωτὰ ἀγγεῖα μὲ ἔκτυπα ἐμβλήματα καὶ μελανόγραφες ὑδρίες Hadra ἀπὸ τὶς συλλογὲς τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ Ἀρχαιολογικοῦ Μουσείου, in Ὑπουργεῖο Πολιτισμοῦ. ΚΕ΄ Ἐφορεία Προιστορικῶν καὶ Κλασικῶν Ἀρχαιοτήτων. Ἑλληνιστικὴ Κεραμικὴ ἀπὸ τὴν Κρήτη, Χανία (Chania), 107-146 - see in bibliography Βαρκαῖος Βαρκαίου
c. 1 Zervoudaki, 1997 Zervoudaki, I., 1997, Ῥαβδωτὰ ἀγγεῖα μὲ ἔκτυπα ἐμβλήματα καὶ μελανόγραφες ὑδρίες Hadra ἀπὸ τὶς συλλογὲς τοῦ Ἐθνικοῦ Ἀρχαιολογικοῦ Μουσείου, in Ὑπουργεῖο Πολιτισμοῦ. ΚΕ΄ Ἐφορεία Προιστορικῶν καὶ Κλασικῶν Ἀρχαιοτήτων. Ἑλληνιστικὴ Κεραμικὴ ἀπὸ τὴν Κρήτη, Χανία (Chania), 107-146 - see in bibliography ΒΑΡΚΙ
a
Barkaios ( vac. ), pour Barkaios.
b
Intraduisible.
c
Barkaios Ι.
a
Barkaios ( vac. ), for Barkaios.
b
Not usefully translatable.
c
Barkaios Ι.
a
Barkaios ( vac. ), per Barkaios.
b
Intraducibile.
c
Barkaios Ι.
باركيوس(فراغ) لأجل باركيوس. لا يمكن ترجمتها بشكل جيد.
For the Egyptian fabric of those funerary vases, see Mankou, 1997 Mankou, E., 1997, Χημική ανάλυση με ατομική απορρόφηση 38 μελανόγραφων ιδριών τύπου Hadra και 12 μελαμβαφών ραβδωτών αγγείων με έκτυπα εμβλήματα (Plakettenvasen), in Ελληνιστική Κεραμική από την Κρήτη (Hellēnistikē keramikē apo tēn Krētē ), Χανία (Chania), 147-151 - see in bibliography . The graffiti should be at least partly an epitaph.
In a) the photograph shows very clearly Βαρκαίωι, so we may suppose that both the dead and the curator were called Βαρκαῖος. Alternatively, another possibility would be a hypercorrect genitive ending in -ωι, a feature otherwise known only in the Imperial period. If so, the second Barkaios would be the father's name of the first.
The iota at the end of c) has an unclear purpose and the graffito b) is meaningless.
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