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e1ftloraop in the sense of " door-handle." 4 The weights in lines 8 and 9 must
surely belong to some silver objects, perhaps thymiateria, as suggested abQve, or even
exceptionally heavy hydriai,48 for the absence of rovrwv implies that they cannot refer
to groups of objects. The first letter in line 10 must have been either delta or lambda,
suggesting [Ka] 8ot or [vfl Xot, and in the last line nothing is certain before the final
'ro, though the traces of the four preceding letters might lead to the reading --- -] v
EK -T-O-]. [i Unfortunately none of these suggestions helps to identify the source
of the inventory.
13 (Plate 56). Fragnment of Hymettian marble, broken on all sides and at the back,
found on May 13, 1947, in an early Byzantine context in the industrial area east of
the Great Drain (D 17).
Height, 0.08 m.; width, 0.09 m.; thickness, 0.022 m.
Height of letters, 0.005 m.-0.007 m.
Inv. No. I 5980.
saec. IV a. NON-ITOIX.
[?-] yovog 'A[-?----
--Tt vel A]or0E'V s Kat KT[no-- -]
[rpa67reCa
(?) o-]rpo[y]yvXq vcacat
[(?) mmrEyaa-r] pE3 AAPI vacat
5 [ ?------] vacat
Little can be made of this fragment, with remains of names in lines 1-2 and an
inventory in lines 3-5. Thus it is uncertain whether the alpha at the end of line 1
belongs to another name in the nominative, or to a patronymic, or to a demotic; and
we must note the inconsistency with line 2, where two names without patronymic or
demotic are coupled with Kat.
It is not even certain whether lines 3-5 contain a list of the equipment of a
sanctuary or of a household. I suggest Tpd&TE;a as the circular object, and assume that
one table would suffice, whether for ritual or for domestic purposes. On this view, and
assuming that line 4 began under the tau of rpa'reca, there are about eight letters to
supply at the beginning of the line. I have no satisfactory suggestion to offer, as it is
not easy in any case to think of an article of equipment of which twenty-six pieces
were required. Although it falls short by one letter of the required length of the word
I would suggest [crTE-yao--r] " 7pE, cover tiles," as at least a possible, and not inappro-
X, 22. Could ariracr4p possibly miiean "feeding-bottle," derived from arav in the sense of
" to suck," for which see Liddell-Scott-Jones, Lexicon, s.v., III?
4 For a group of hydriai with weights ranging from 1130(+) to 1300(+) drachmnai, cf.
I.G., 112, 1432, lines 1-5.