II.1.1 124. Production mark, pre-firing, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, proto-Thasos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Grid square 161, west, depth down to 0.9 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1976, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.76.325. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.1

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

Early 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

The shape is that of an alpha(?) with broken crossbar, but also with extra vertical stroke rising from the apex of alpha.

 

Images

 

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