Medicine Bottle.
Handle and half of neck and mouth missing.
Flat base with string marks. Irregular, barrel-shaped body with slightly angular shoulder. Short, thick neck; plain, slightly outturned rim ... Context of late 1st century B.C. and 1st century after Christ ... CXXVI); a bottle in Beirut stamped Δημε'ας λυ'κιος (Calvet 1982); and a bottle from Mirmeki stamped ⟧αυ'γου λυ'κιον ἐπ" ἐγγυ'ἡἰ (Prouglo 1966, pp. 192--202, figs. 1, 2). Although the epsilon is lacking in the Agora stamp, its last line may tentatively be read as suggested above on analogy with the latter. ... , Akestias, Lykias, Simakon, and Alypou (the last perhaps the name of a pharmacist but also the name of a drug) (see IG XIV 2406:1, 2; H. A. Thompson 1948, p. 191; Guarducci 1952; Sjöqvist 1960, p. 82, fig. 15, pl. 20; Prouglo 1966, p. 13, fig. 2; Hershkovitz 1986, no. 1, pp. 47, 50; Smith 1992, p. 166, note 38; Panayotou and Chrysostomou 1993, no. 12, pp. 381--382, figs. 17, 18).
