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Marble bowl with acclamation

Type of monument:
Bowl with acclamation.
Location:
Susuz (Akmoneia): in private possession.
Description:
White marble bowl with spout and three handles, inscribed on upper surface of the rim.
Dimensions:
Diameter 0.19 (internal), 0.26 (external), 0.31 (including handles); Depth 0.08 (internal), 0.10 (external)
Record:
Squeeze; MB notebook copy (1956/62).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Byzantine period.
 
 

† νικᾷ ἡ τύχη τοῦ κυροῦ μου Χ̣ΕΤΑ̣Ω̣
The fortune of my lord... is victorious!

The last five letters of the inscription, if I have read them correctly, could conceivably be expanded Χ(ριστ)ὲ τ(ὸ) ἄ(λφα καὶ τὸ) ὠ(μέγα).

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 114 (Akmoneia 16: 1956-62)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 114 (Akmoneia 16: 1956-62)