I agree that the inscription looks odd...beautiful hand though....but
context is everything. If it says what I think it says and is genuine, it
was a goblet for drinking wine in any of the inns along the harbor. If it
is a fake, that will be detected in a heartbeat. I must admit that the
inscription appears freshly incused after firing and the question remains is
the goblet itself ancient? That can be settled in half an hour. Was this
thing supposed to have been under water for 2000 years...in silt?
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Lupia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [PAPY] OGOISTAIS
Cara Giovanna:
If we begin to surmise like this it seems there are limitless
possibilities with one possible wild interpretation that the back
inscription is a jumble of the proper name Traianos Gagos
John N. Lupia III
New Jersey, USA; Beirut, Lebanon
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Roman-Catholic-News/
God Bless Everyone
--- On Thu, 9/18/08, Giovanna Menci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Giovanna Menci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [PAPY] OGOISTAIS
To: [email protected]
Date: Thursday, September 18, 2008, 9:27 AM
Dear All,
OGOISTAIS could be an anagram. If one of the letters O is a
mistake for
/rho/, the word anagrammatized could be TRISAGIOS; and it
would be a
very early attestation.
Best wishes
Giovanna Menci
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Giovanna Menci
Centro Studi Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli»
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Borgo degli Albizi, 12
I-50122 Firenze
Italia
Wieland Willker ha scritto:
> I have asked "Der Spiegel" and they sent me
an image of the back.
> Thank you very much!
>
>
> Have a look here:
> http://tinyurl.com/6amr2e
>
> What does that mean?
> Comments welcome!
>
>
> Best wishes
> Wieland
> <><
> ------------------------------------------------
> Wieland Willker, Bremen, Germany
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie
> Textcritical commentary:
> http://www.uni-bremen.de/~wie/TCG/index.html
>
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