AS-4

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Inscription
Transliteration: ]?θθ[
Original script: ]Θ sΘ s?[

Object: AS-4 potsherd (pottery)
Position: shoulder
Script: unknown
Direction of writing: ambiguous
Number of characters: 3
Number of lines: 1
Craftsmanship: incised
Current condition: unknown
Date of inscription: 4th–2nd centuries BC [from object]
Date derived from: archaeological context [from object]

Language: unknown
Meaning: unknown

Alternative sigla: PID 218 (ii)
LIR ROT-5
MLR 111
TM 218501
Sources: Schumacher 2004: 167

Images

Commentary

First published in Pellegrini 1915: 120 f. Lost.

Image in Pellegrini 1915: tav. II, 22 (drawing).

Incised on the wall of the fragmentary vessel. Pellegrini's drawing clearly shows two St. Andrew's crosses. The character on the right might be V s or a form of Alpha. If the two bars are irrelevant scratches, the group might be another example of the manufacturer's mark I sΘ sΘ sI s iθθi, which occurs on the wall of a beaker once. But cp. also EX-95 and EX-96 for dubious scratchings on the walls of cups.

Bibliography

LIR Alberto Mancini, Le Iscrizioni Retiche [= Quaderni del dipartimento di linguistica, Università degli studi di Firenze Studi 8–9], Padova: Unipress 2009–10. (2 volumes)