Name
created: Transcription from object (CDL).
source date: Perhaps third century or first half of second century BC
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Not published before [...] 132300.

Θεύπομπος τλε

Theupompos [...].

Theupompos [...].

Theupompos [...].

The authorization of publishing this find from the Michigan expedition was given by Prof. Donald White in 2016. Having no access to the Archives of those ancient excavations, he was not able to solve the exact meaning of the label, which however should be assigned to him because of the initials 'DW' in the heading. The doll had been handed for examination to the French team by the late Head of the Apollonia site, Hadj Fadlallah Abdussalam. White having excavated in 1966 a series of tombs below the city-wall from tower II to tower IV (i.e. the first tombs of the Western Necropolis), it is highly plausible that the findspot was one of those tombs.

The attaching device for legs and arms seems too light to allow limbs made of terracotta. We suspect that they were rather made of textile.

A doll should be found in a girl's tomb, the more so if it features a female figure. The man's name at the nominative written on the back is no owner's name and might be the name of the donor. The meaning of the three last letters is unclear. Even if lambda was misread for alpha, no solution emerges and there is no room for a longer inscription. So the letters are probably acronymics, which we are not able to complete.