II.1.1 208. Commercial(?) notations, 2nd half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, 2nd half VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 139, yellow-clay layer. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1987, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.87.170. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

5.2 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notations. 

Date

2nd half 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

Below and to the left of the cross-shaped mark there is a fragmentary stroke, which is possibly part of another graffito mark.

 

Images

 

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