Epitaph

IGCyr088800

Trismegistos ID: 738437

Source Description

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 , exact findspot unknown.

Last recorded Location

Seen in 1997 by Zervoudaki with help of Ch. Kritzas at Athens : Athens National Archaeological Museum .

Text constituted from

Transcription from editor.

Bibliography

Zervoudaki, 1997 , pp. 109-115, fig. 4 and 13, p. 140, n. 25, whence SEG , 48.2062bis.

Text

a
Βαρκαῖος (vac. 15?) Βαρκαίωι
b
ΒΩΜ
c
Βαρκ(αῖος) Ι

Apparatus

a. 1 Zervoudaki, 1997  Βαρκαῖος Βαρκαίου

c. 1 Zervoudaki, 1997  ΒΑΡΚΙ

French translation

a

Barkaios ( vac. ), pour Barkaios.

b

Intraduisible.

c

Barkaios Ι.

English translation

a

Barkaios ( vac. ), for Barkaios.

b

Not usefully translatable.

c

Barkaios Ι.

Italian translation

a

Barkaios ( vac. ), per Barkaios.

b

Intraducibile.

c

Barkaios Ι.

Arabic translation

باركيوس(فراغ) لأجل باركيوس. لا يمكن ترجمتها بشكل جيد.

Commentary

For the Egyptian fabric of those funerary vases, see Mankou, 1997 . 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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