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Trademark (?)

EpiDoc XML: IGCyr0891002
Trismegistos ID: 738439

Source description

Support: Bottom of a base of Attic black-glazed ware with stamped palmettes and roulettings (dimensions unknown).

Layout: Graffito on the underside of the base.

Letters: Height unknown.

Date: Perhaps sixth century BC (context).

Findspot: Found in 1998 at Euesperides: area P.

Place of origin: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Not seen by IGCyr team.

Text constituted from: Transcription from previous editor.

Bibliography

E.Zimi in Wilson 1999, pp. 161-163 (no image), and Dobias-Lalou, BE, 2000.743, whence SEG, 49.2353 a; IGCyr 089100 .

Text

Interpretive

[μ?]ισθὸς οἰκία[ς?]

Diplomatic

[.]ΙΣΘΟΣΟΙΚΙΑ[.]

Apparatus

1: [μ?]ισθὸς οἰκία[ς?] Dobias-Lalou, BE: [---]ισθος ΟΙΚΙΑ[---] Wilson 1999

French translation

Loyer de la maison (?)

English translation

Rent for the house (?)

Italian translation

Pigione per la casa (?)

Arabic translation

تأجير للمنزل

Commentary

No other Greek word occurs to the mind for [---]ισθος than μισθός, which sometimes means 'rent' especially in Egyptian papyri; however this reading remains unsure as long as no photograph of the sherd is available.

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Maps

Euesperides

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