ABSTRACT
Some time in the early fi fth century BCE a person incised two signs under the base of a small Attic lekythos. The lekythos is kept today in the Archaeological Museum of Volos in central Greece (Volos K3335-178), but the short graffi to for a long time went unnoticed by scholars. It was not mentioned in the description of the vase in the museum archives; indeed the inventory number was drawn in black ink on top of the graffi to overlooking its presence (Figure 7.1). This chapter will investigate this graffi to and the ways in which it can be understood. It will examine how physical interaction with the graffi to and the surface on which it appears affects its reading, use and interpretation.
