Description: The terracotta plaque made from red clay without any slip and preserved from 50 % with dimensions (m) w:
0.06 × h:
0.04 × d:0.01 The A side of the terracotta plaque is decorated with a figural scene in shallow mould-made relief. Although the lower part of the relief is missing, the scene is depicting a deity with long hair, wearing a polos hat, standing in the middle of a Doric temple, accompanied by bucranion on her/his left side and what appears to be an upper part of a club on the right side. In the middle of the temple’s pediment is located a round object, possibly the sun or a round shield.
Text: Inscribed into the middle of the B side of a small terracotta plaque.
Letters: Handwritten when the clay was still wet, uneven depth of the letters. The initial strokes of the letter Π are 1-2 mm deeper than the rest of the text.
Letter height 0.008 m.
Date: AD 101 - AD 299
Findspot: Stroyno-Yurta. Found during the Stroyno Archaeological Project, season 2015, robber’s trench (RT) soil [SU 001] in the Room B
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Stroyno Archaeological Project, now stored at Regional Historical Museum, Yambol, Bulagria.
1: Υ or Ι: Based on autopsy, the upper stroke of Υ might be continuation of the top stroke from the previous letter Π and then the second letter would be Ι. After examining the photograph, N. Sharankov suggested letter Η instead with the top right stroke missing.
[Dedicated to / by] Pytnios.
The male personal name Pytnios in genitive case, typical for dedications either made by Pytnios, or to a deity with an epithet Pytnios. The personal name Pytnios or Pitnios has not been attested anywhere else, but the suffixes Pyt- and especially Pyth- are relatively common in the Greek-speaking world, e.g. Apollo Pythios from Delphi (Fraser – Matthews 2005, 295)
Bibliography: Editio princeps.
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