Support: Attic black-glazed ware lekanis; with lid (diameter 0.13).

Layout: Scratched under foot opposite IGCyr088050²; to be read from outside.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: End of fifth to beginning of fourth century BC

Findspot: Found between 1952 and 1954 at Euesperides ➚: in a house of area A.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Said to be already lost in 1998.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

French translation

1 drachme la douzaine.

English translation

1 drachma per dozen.

Italian translation

1 dracma alla dozzina.

Commentary

The lekanis was found broken into some 25 fragments between the last floor of the house and the ashy layer that covers a large part of the upper city and also of the lower city and probably related to a destruction in the early fourth century.

About this isolated instance of the Attic notation of a price through acrophonic numbers, see Dobias-Lalou 2017, p. 200, footnote 50.

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