II.1.1 113. Production mark, pre-firing, VI-V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Neck? fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W.4.8, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, redware, VI-V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, half-square III, IV, quarter-square V, depth 0.4 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1965, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.65.194. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck?, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.3

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

VI-V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

Mark of unsual shape: two strokes meeting in a point at sharp angle, while the ends of the strokes have extensions of short strokes parallel to each other.

 

Images

 

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