Fish pictorial graffiti on pottery

Description: The clay vessel body fragment. The pictoral graffiti is incised into the inner side of fine red-slipped ware, possibly of an open bowl. The image represents a fish with fins.
Text: No letters visible.
Letters: NA

Date: AD 100 - AD 399
Type of inscription: NA

Findspot: Yurta-Stroyno, Stroyno, Yambol, Bulgaria. Found at Yurta-Stroyno in 2015 in the robber's trench soil in the inner area of the house that was built after AD 217.
Original location: Unknown place in Thracia
Last recorded location: Stroyno Archaeological Project, now stored at Regional Historical Museum, Yambol, Bulgaria. Inv. no. SY15_179

Edition

Interpretive edition: NA

Diplomatic edition: NA

Apparatus

Translation:

Commentary:

The pictorial graffiti serving as decorative motif.

Bibliography:

Heřmánková, P. (2020) The Epigraphic Finds from Yurta-Stroyno in a Regional Context. In: Tušlová, P., Weissová, B. (Eds.) The Stroyno Archaeological Project. Studies on the Roman Rural Settlement in Thrace. Prague.

Text constituted from: Stroyno Archaeological Project, P. Heřmánková, 2015, autopsy

Images

Inner side of the sherd with the incised pictorial graffiti, representing a fish. Drawing, Věra Doležálková, Petra Tušlová (2018)

Inner side of the sherd with the pictoral graffiti, representing a fish incised into a red-slip on the surface. Photo, Johana Tlustá (2015)