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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><html><head><title>Votive decorative plaque by/to Pytnios</title><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen, projection" href="../xsl/global.css"/></head><body><h1>Votive decorative plaque by/to Pytnios</h1><p><b>Description: </b>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.
<br/><b>Text: </b> Inscribed into the middle of the B side of a small terracotta plaque.<br/><b>Letters: </b>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.
</p><p><b>Date: </b>AD 101 - AD 299 </p><p><b>Findspot: </b> Stroyno-Yurta. Found during the Stroyno Archaeological Project, season 2015, robber’s trench (RT) soil [SU 001] in the Room B
<br/><b>Original location: </b>Unknown<br/><b>Last recorded location: </b>Stroyno Archaeological Project, now stored at Regional Historical Museum, Yambol, Bulagria.</p><div id="inslib-text"><div id="edition"><p><b>Interpretive edition:</b></p><div id="edition" lang="grc"> <div class="textpart" lang="grc"><span class="ab"> <a id="al1"><!--0--></a>Πυτνιου </span></div> </div></div><div id="diplomatic"><p><b>Diplomatic edition:</b></p><div id="edition" lang="grc"><div class="textpart" lang="grc"><span class="ab"> <a id="al1"><!--0--></a>ΠΥΤΝΙΟΥ</span></div></div></div></div><div id="apparatus"><div id="apparatus"><h2>apparatus</h2><p> <span class="1">1: <span>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.</span> </span> </p></div></div><div id="translation"><h4 class="slimmer">Translation:</h4><p>[Dedicated to / by] Pytnios.</p></div><div id="commentary"><h4 class="slimmer">Commentary:</h4><p>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) </p></div><p><b>Bibliography: </b>Editio princeps. <br/><b>Text constituted from: </b></p></body></html>