Two Ostraka for Xanthippos Arriphronos | Dickinson College Commentaries

Two small pottery fragments serving as Ostraka, the first with three rows of Greek text, the second with two rows of Greek text.

Annotations

Two Ostraka of Xanthippos Arriphronos, the father of the Peloponnesian War-era general and highly influential statesman Pericles. Both ostraka are wall fragments broken all around. The ostrakon on the left (object P 32559) is of coarse-grained clay and unglazed. The ostrakon on the right (object P 32560) has a thin, dark brown glaze on its exterior.

Comments

Bibliography:

Camp and Mauzy (2009), p. 83, fig. 79.

Hesperia 68 (1999), p. 269, no. 21, figs. 18, 19.

Agora XXV, pp. 133-135.

Online Resources

Image 2010.01.0320

Object P 32559

Associated Passages

2. Greek Consonants: Key Terms and Concepts

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