II.1.1 197. Commercial notation, late VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Shoulder fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, late VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, humus layer, grid squares 961-965, 1011-1015. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1989, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.89.247. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Shoulder, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.5-3.8

Text

Category

 

Date

Late VI 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

ΚΛΙ ̣or ΚΛΕ̣ or ΚΛΗ̣ Top of the third vertical is clear, perhaps there is also a left tip of horizontal stroke, but possibly it is just an accidental chip on the break.

 

Images

 

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