The potsherd features a handle stump and a rim segment. The graffito appears to the right of the handle stump, and the text is written orthograde, so we have to imagine that ΣΚΟ̣ represents either the start of the text or its continuation. If the latter, the longer text would have likely started some way to the left of the handle. If the inscription started on our fragment, and the third letter was an omicron, then we would likely have a personal name, beginning with Σκο-: e.g. Σκοπελῖνος, in Thebes, (VI cent. BCE) - LGPN online, V3b-34272. Another possible name is Skopas (Σκόπας), attested at Krannon in late VI centur BCE (LGPN online, V3b-1725: RE s.v. Skopadai (-); Moretti, Olymp. 1021; Helly, L'État thessalien pp. 108-12; CQ 36 (1942) p. 61 no. 10 (s. Κρέων, Ἐχεκράτεια). Also, Skopandros is known at Styra (LGPN online, V1-77304). Also known: Σκόπα, at Halai (LGPN online V3b-1455: c.500-475BC, Guarducci, Ep. Gr. 1 pp. 299-300 no. 2; LSAG2 p. 108 no. 11 (date) (Σϟό– (masc.)). Finally, there is a possibility that the third letter was an omega, [- -]ΣΚΩ̣[- -], in that case, personal names such as Σκώπασις, attested in Herodotus 4.120, 4.128, could be considered. And Σκῶνυς is known in Athens (LGPN online V2-56609) in the 5th cent. BCE (IG I3 422, 71).

A somewhat less elegant arrangement of text but not completely unthinkable would be a longer inscription that was interrupted by the handle and necessitated breaking up of a long word, e.g. Dioskouroi or a cognate theophoric name.