AS-4

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Inscription
Transliteration:	]?θθ[
Original script:	]?[
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
Sources:	Schumacher 2004: 167

Images

Object AS-4 potsherd with inscription AS-4.

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 or a form of Alpha. If the two bars are irrelevant scratches, the group might be another example of the manufacturer's mark iθθi – while the same only occurs on the bottom of cups, the other supposed factory mark from Bostel does also once occur on the wall, though on the inside (AS-23.2). 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)