Trademark (?)

IGCyr089100

Trismegistos ID: 738439

Source Description

Support

Bottom of a base of Attic black-glazed ware with stamped palmettes and roulettings (dimensions unknown).

Layout

Graffito on the underside of the base.

Letters

Height unknown.

Place of Origin

Findspot.

Date

Perhaps sixth century B.C. (context)

Findspot

Found in 1998 at Euesperides : area P .

Present Location

Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from

Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

E.Zimi in Wilson, 1999 , pp. 161-163 (no image), and Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique , 2000.743, whence SEG , 49.2353 a.

Text

[μ?]ισθὸς οἰκία[ς?]

Apparatus

1 Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique  [μ?]ισθὸς οἰκία[ς?] : Wilson, 1999  [---] ισθος ΟΙΚΙΑ[---] 

French translation

Loyer de la maison (?)

English translation

Rent for the house (?)

Italian translation

Pigione per la casa (?)

Arabic translation

تأجير للمنزل

Commentary

No other Greek word occurs to the mind for  [---] ισθος than μισθός, which sometimes means 'rent' especially in Egyptian papyri; however this reading remains unsure as long as no photograph of the sherd is available.

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