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JOHNSTON, ALAN: Graffiti and dipinti on Greek and Italic Vases of the Department of Classical Antiquities

35 36 Berlin 1856, CVA 5,47 (ABV 370, 130). The mark is probably Greek, rather than Etruscan, but the point is not readily proved. On 5 both signs seem to be basically an A with additional lines; a similar pair of alphad^ased marks can be found on a Leagran hydria (TM 1 A,4, ex Hercle, Rome), but they are only similar - neither are the same as the Budapest marks, which I find very difficult to interpret. 6 might be a variant of TM type 33A; we seem to have one simple circle and one vith an "arrow" attached to it; 33A is a circle with a "tick" attached; the possibility of an association is suggested by the fact that type 33 A is often repeated, and we may have some form of repetition 6. Yet 6 is later in date than the core of type 33A. 7. attributed by D. v. Bothmer to the Bucci painter, bears the mark of a trader whom I have tentatively identified with Sostratos of Aegina, although the painter's works are not otherwise known to have the abbreviation.

3 The graffito is relatively small and deep, 3 I do not repeat here the arguments for and against the identification with Sostratos, but note that I have restated some points in the general discussion in Acta Hyperborea 3 (1991 ) pp. 405-406.