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| pl. 10. IG II², 1176 ... Agora 16 I 6439 I 2440 |
| IG II², 557. IG II², 479. SEG XXXIII, 93. IG II², 480. IG II², 505. SEG XIX, 61. SEG XXIV, 113. SEG XXXIII, 97. SEG XXXIV, 259. SEG XXXVII, 87. IG II², 649. SEG XXXIII, 107. SEG XXXV, 85. P.J. Rhodes, ... Agora 16 236 ... IG II², 557 ... IG II², 479 ... IG II², 480 |
| SEG XL, 96. Tracy, Hesperia 47, 1978, p. 253, no. 5, with photograph pl. 66:a. SEG XXVIII, 362. B.D. Meritt, Hesperia 32, 1963, pp. 14-15, no. 13, with photograph pl. 4. SEG XXI, 522. S.V. Tracy, Attic ... Agora 16 332 I 6979 I 6827 ... 14 January 1959 ... Tracy, IG II² 1318, fig. 5 ... IG II², 848 ... Meritt, Hesperia 4, 1935, p. 557 |
Medicine Bottle.
Handle and half of neck and mouth missing.
Flat base with string marks. Irregular, barrel-shaped body with slightly angular shoulder. Short, thick neck; plain, slightly outturned rim ... Context of late 1st century B.C. and 1st century after Christ ... The name Νικι'ας occurs also on medicine bottles of other shapes (IG XIV 2406:4b; Calvet 1982, p. 282; Ephesos IX, ii/ii, O 27, pp. 149, 152, pl. 214) and, according to Virginia Grace, on bottles in the Benaki collection and from the island of Rhodes (Benaki M 3; MS 555--557, 564) naming Νικι'ας τοῦ Θευδο'του. The variant Νεικι'α λυ'κιον is also recorded (IG XIV 2406:4a). Intriguing, but of uncertain relevance, is the fact that Νικι'ας is also the name of a doctor the poet Theokritos knew on Kos in the 3rd century (Idyll 11.2, 5; Idyll 28). ... , Akestias, Lykias, Simakon, and Alypou (the last perhaps the name of a pharmacist but also the name of a drug) (see IG XIV 2406:1, 2; H. |
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