Support: Ridged black-glazed ware amphora with reliefs (Plakettenvase); from Egypt (h: 0.445).

Layout: Three graffiti: a) on inside of mouth, under rim; b) on middle of neck; c) under foot.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Ca. 280 BC (monument type).

Findspot: Said to come from Cyrene ➚, exact findspot unknown.

Place of origin: Uncertain

Last recorded location: Athens National Archaeological Museum, 2145. Seen in 1997 by Zervoudaki with help of Ch. Kritzas at Athens: Athens National Archaeological Museum.

Text constituted from: Transcription from editor.

Apparatus

French translation

Barkaios (vac.), pour Barkaios.

Intraduisible.

Barkaios Ι.

English translation

Barkaios (vac.), for Barkaios.

Not usefully translatable.

Barkaios Ι.

Italian translation

Barkaios (vac.), per Barkaios.

Intraducibile.

Barkaios Ι.

Arabic translation

باركيوس(فراغ) لأجل باركيوس. لا يمكن ترجمتها بشكل جيد.

Commentary

For the Egyptian fabric of those funerary vases, see Mankou 1997. The graffiti should be at least partly an epitaph.

In a) the photograph shows very clearly Βαρκαίωι, so we may suppose that both the dead and the curator were called Βαρκαῖος. Alternatively, another possibility would be a hypercorrect genitive ending in -ωι, a feature otherwise known only in the Imperial period. If so, the second Barkaios would be the father's name of the first.

The iota at the end of c) has an unclear purpose and the graffito b) is meaningless.

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