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The Athenian Agora ® PUBLISHED with the AID of a GRANT from MR THE ATHENIANAGORA RESULTS OF EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED BY THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS VOLUME XXI Athens GRAFFITI AND DIPINTI at BY Studies CC-BY-NC-ND. MABEL LANG License: Classical of only. use School personal American © For THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY 1976 American School of Classical Studies at Athens is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve, and extend access to The Athenian Agora ® www.jstor.org PUBLISHED WITH THE AID OF A GRANT FROM MR. JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. Athens at ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Studies CC-BY-NC-ND. License: Classical of only. use School personal in Publication Data American Library of Congress Cataloging Lang, Mabel L 1917- For © Graffiti and dipinti. (The Athenian Agora; v. 21) Bibliography: p. 1. Athens. Agora. 2. Graffiti-Athens. 3. Inscriptions, Greek-Athens. I. Title. II. Series: American School of Classical Studies at Athens. The Athenian Agora; v. 21. DF287.A23A5 vol. 21 938'.5s [938'.5] 75-40229 ISBN 0-87661-221-4 PRINTED IN GERMANY at J.J. AUGUSTIN, GLtCKSTADT PREFACE P erhapseven more than in othervolumes of the AthenianAgora series the materialpresented here has hadthe benefitof muchtime and thought over the years on the partof a goodly numberof excavators, cataloguersand visitorsin the Agora. Everyoneenjoys verbal puzzles that challengeone's powersof reading(ancient) minds, and manyhappy notions about these texts wereevolved around the tea table so Athens that the 'onlie begetter'may have been lost in obscurity. Dating of the materialhas also been a cooperativeeffort, so that the presentauthor is indebtednot at only to excavatorsbut also to the many scholarswhose study of particularkinds of materialfor particularperiods has broughtorder out of complicationand confusion. Basicto this workwas firsta completelisting of all graffitiand dipintifound in the Agora,initiated by Lucy Talcottand effectedby SuzanneYoung and a successionof helpfulvolunteers. Then, the founda- Studies tionsCC-BY-NC-ND. of this study'scategories A throughG werelaid in a preliminaryversion written in the early1950's by George A. Stamiresand EugeneVanderpool. Although far more limited in scope and numberof piecesstudied than this, that workhas on severaloccasions provided not only the best readingbut also the right phrasesin which to presentthe material.In the years following,the presentauthor was for- tunatein beingable to consultwith EugeneVanderpool and benefitfrom his vast experienceof all things GreekLicense: and graphic.His wisdomand temperedjudgment in consequencepervade the whole work; the Classical infelicitiesand what errorsthere may be of commisssionor omissionare all my own. of Illustrationsof the graffitihave beenlimited to drawings.In the case of dipintiphotographs have been preferredonly. for one category,because of the difficultiespresented by a combinationof run-oncursive forms and the fugitivemedium. The drawingswere made by Hero Athanasiadesand Helene Besi who have shownboth skill and firmnessin representingwhat was actuallyvisible rather than being influencedby use School the 'wishfulseeing' of the author. 'It is easy to read if you know what it says.' - EUGENEVANDERPOOL NOVEMBER,1974 MABEL LANG personal American For © TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE ........................................................................ V LIST OF PLATES ............................................................ .... viii Athens ABBREVIATIONSAND BIBLIOGRAPHY ...................................................... ix at INTRODUCTION......... ................ ..................................... 1 A. ABECEDARIA ........................... ................. ..... 6 B. MESSAGESAND LISTS ...................................................... 8 C. LOVENAMES AND HATENAMES ........... ................................ 11 Studies CC-BY-NC-ND. D. NAMESON SHERDS................... ........... ................... 16 E. NUMERICALNOTATIONS ON SHERDS .......................... ................... 21 F. OWNERS' MARKS ....................... ............................ 23 F. PRIVATEOWNERSHIP ...................................................... 30 FA. PUBLIC OWNERSHIP: DELTA-EPSILONLIGATURES .................................... 51 License: Classical FB. PUBLICOWNERSHIP: DELTA-ETA LIGATURES ........ ........ ......... 52 of G. DEDICATIONSAND CONVIVIALINSCRIPTIONS .............................. ............ 52 only. H. COMMERCIALNOTATIONS .......................................................... 55 HA. CAPACITY....................... ............... ..................... 55 HB. TARE .6............................................................. 64 use School HC. DATE ................................................................ 69 HD. CONTENTS ....................................................... 72 HE. COMBINATIONS....................................................... 75 I. TAX NOTATIONS ....... ......... ................................... 82 J. CHRISTIANINSCRIPTIONS ............................................ 87 personal 88 American K. MISCELLANEOUSNOTATIONS ......... ................................... L. UNCLASSIFIEDNOTATIONS ................. ............... ................... 90 For © M. PICTURES ............ ..... .......................... .............. 94 DEPOSITS ................................................9...................96 CONCORDANCEOF INVENTORYAND CATALOGUENUMBERS ................................... 101 INDICES............................................ 105 INDEX NOMINUM........... .. ............................. ..... .......105 INDEX VERBORUM ................................................................... 110 INDEX NUMERORUM ................................................................. 115 INDEX SIGILLORUM .................................................................. 116 LIST OF PLATES PLATE 1 Abecedaria (A 1-11) 2-3 Lists and Messages (B 1-21) Athens 4-6 Love Names and Hate Names (C 1-34) 7-9 Names on Sherds (D 1-44) at 10 Numerical Notations on Sherds (E 1-16) 11-28 Owners' Marks (F 1-334) 29 Owners' Marks: De(mosion) Ligatures (Fa 1-26; Fb 1-3) 30-31 Dedications and Convivial Studies Inscriptions (G 1-23) CC-BY-NC-ND. 32-36 Commercial Notations: Capacity (Ha 1-56) 37-38 Commercial Notations: Tare (Hb 1-31) 39-40 Commercial Notations: Date (Hc 1-26) 41-42 Commercial Notations: Contents (Hd 1-23) License: Classical 42-47 Commercial Notations: Combinations (He 1-44) of 48-53 Tax Notations (I 1-45) 53-54 Christian only. Inscriptions (J 1-12) 54-55 Miscellaneous (K 1-19) 56-59 Unclassified (L 1-56) use School 60-61 Pictures (M 1-23) 62 Actual State Plan of the Agora personal American For © ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Agora TheAthenian Agora, Results of Excavationsconducted by the AmericanSchool of ClassicalStudies at Athens III R. E. Wycherley, Literary and Epigraphical Testimonia, Princeton, 1957 (see below, Wycherley) Athens IV R. H. Howland, Greek Lamps and their Survivals,Princeton, 1958 (see at below, Howland) V H. S. Robinson, Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology,Princeton, 1959(see below, Robinson,Chronology) VI C. Grandjouan, Terracottasof the Roman Period, Princeton, 1961 VII J. Perlzweig, Lamps of the Roman Period, Princeton, 1961 VIII E. T. H. Brann, Late Geometric and Protoattic Pottery, Princeton, 1962 Studies CC-BY-NC-ND. (see below, Brann) X M. Lang and M. Crosby, Weights,Measures and Tokens, Princeton, 1964 XII B. A. Sparkes and L. Talcott, Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th CenturiesB. C., Princeton,1970 (see below, Sparkes-Talcott) A. J.A 1. AmericanJournal of Archaeology Annualrio Annuariodella (R.) Scuola archeologicadi Atene License: Classical Beazley, A. B. V. J. D. Beazley, Attic Black-Figure Vase-Painters,Oxford, 1956 of Beazley, A. R. V. J. D. Beazley, Attic Red-Figure Vase-Painters,second edition, Oxford, 1963 Bechtel Fr. Bechtel, Die historischePersonennamen des Griechischen,Halle, 1917 Bickermanonly. E. J. Bickerman, Chronologyof the Ancient World,London, 1968 Brann Late Geometricand Protoattic Pottery. Agora, VIII B. S. A. Annual of the British School at Athens use School B. C.H. Bulletin de correspondancehellenique C. I. L. CorpusInscriptionum Latinarum, Paris, 1862-1963 C.R. Classical Review Edmonds J. M. Edmonds, The Fragmentsof Attic Comedy, Leiden, 1959-61 Howland Greek Lamps and their Survivals.Agora, IV personal I.G. Editio 1924 - American InscriptionesGraecae, minor, Berlin, I. G. A. Imagines InscriptionumGraecarum Antiquissimarum, third edition, H. Roehl, For © Berlin,1907 LG. R.R. InscriptionesGraecae ad Res Romanas Pertinentes,Paris, 1906-2/ Immerwahr H. R. Immerwahr,"Some Inscriptionson Attic Pottery," The James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, XLVI, 1964, pp. 16-27 Jeffery, L. S. A. G. Lillian H. Jeffery, The Local Scripts of Archaic Greece, Oxford, 1961 Kretschmer P. Kretschmer,Die griechischen Vaseninschriften,Giitersloh, 1894 Kubitschek W. Kubitschek, GrundriJ3fider antiken Zeitrechnung,Munich, 1928 LSJ H. G. Liddell,R. Scott, H. S. Jones,A Greek-EnglishLexicon, Oxford, 1925- 40 Meisterhans2 K. Meisterhans, Grammatik der attischen Inschriften, second edition, Berlin, 1888 x ABBREVIATIONS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY Metrolog. Script. MetrologicorumScriptorum Reliquiae, Leipzig, 1864-1866 P. Oxy. OxyrhynchusPapyri, B. P. Grenfelland A. S. Hunt, ed., London, 1898- Pape J. E. Pape, Worterbuchder griechischenEigennamen, third edition (G. Benseler), Braunschweig,1884 Prosop. Att. J. E. Kirchner, ProsopographiaAttica, Berlin, 1901-03 Robinson, Chronology Pottery
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