II.1.1 192. Commercial notation, VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W.7.0, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 342, 442, humus, 0-0.4 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1983, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.83.223. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.4

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

ΑΛ

Diplomatic

ΑΛ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

The break allows for the possibility of the second letter next to alpha being chi.

 

Images

 

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