Last Recorded Collection: Athens, Agora Museum: P9978
CAVI Collection: Athens, Agora P 9978.
CAVI Lemma: Fr. (chip) of a clay object (lamp?). From Athens.
Unattributed. Second half fifth. *Vidi + *museum card.
CAVI Subject: No decoration preserved.
CAVI Inscriptions: On the outer face, in white, two non-stoich. lines
following the rim are partially preserved:
[b] [---] θε[.]ν Ι [---]η[/b]?[b] κε Π[---][/b]. Under the glaze,
preliminary sketch:
[b] [---] θεο[/b]?[b] [.]ν Ι [---]η[/b]?[b] κε [/b]:[b] Π[/b]?[b] [...]ς[/b]?[b] [---][/b].
CAVI Comments: From a massive clay object hollowed in the middle; two BG
surfaces are preserved on this very tiny fr. Found in Tholos
trench A in disturbed fill. NOT A VASE; probably a lamp.
Probably a dedication, e.g. [b] [ο δεινα ταιν[/b] or [b] Μητρι] θεο[/b]?[b] [ι]ν [/b]
[b] Ι [--- ανεθ]η[/b]?[b] κε [/b]:[b] Π[/b]?[b] [...]ς[/b]? [nomen patris? ---]. Butthe
eta may be a vertical plus an upsilon, hence the name of a
female dedicator, and the pi may be an Ionic gamma; hence
perhaps: [b] [ταιν[/b] or [b] Μητρι] θεο[/b]?[b] [ι]ν Ι [--](.)υ[/b]?[b] κε [/b]:[b] Γ[/b]?[b] [...]ς[/b]?
[b] Ι [ανεθεκεν][/b], which gives better spacing. The finalsigma of
the father's name is only a bit of a top diagonal stroke.
Clearly a bespoken piece.
CAVI / AVI Data from Henry Immerwahr's Corpus of Attic Vase Inscriptions (CAVI), updated by Rudoph Wachter's Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI)
