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| Rectangular stamp broken at left; half an octapus(?). Finished Great Drain south, sand Hellenistic fill. Θασίων
aphlaston
Σιμα̣λ̣ί[ωνος | Αθη] 1683 Leica ... 18 May 1939 ... Θασίων
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Σιμα̣λ̣ί[ωνος | Αθη] |
Broken at back, lower right corner and part of palmette missing.
Relief palmette above spirals, letter in relief below: ΑΘΗ[ΝΑΙΟΥ.
Coarse red clay; light slip. Cistern, Strosis IV. 1422, 1803 Leica ... 16-17 June 1938 ... Relief palmette above spirals, letter in relief below: ΑΘΗ[ΝΑΙΟΥ.
Coarse red clay; light slip. |
Fragment of rim.
Graffito around the rim, on the outside. Letters very well cut, seems to be part of a long inscription (somebody ειμι) and are probably made after purchase.
Clay: fine reddish; black ... 1932 ... αγ [αθη τύχη] |
Intact with the inscription: ΦΙΛΟΜΝΗΣΤΟΣ ΙΚΑΡΙΕΥΣ.
Ends curve forward due to heavier erasure in middle.
Notches in each end apparently for fitting nails in workbench to hold plate firmly during erasure ... 16 June 1970 ... Seals: a) lower left, triobol seal (owl facing, surrounded by olive spray and ΑΘΗ;
b) at right, gorgoneion.
c) at lower right, double-bodied owl with tilted alpha in upper left and right corners.
a) and b) stamped before pinakion originally inscribed. c) added sometime later.
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