II.1.1 217. Commercial(?) notation, V-IV century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Chios (?), V-IV century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, half-square II and IV, clay-ashy layer, depth 0.80-1.30 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1963, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.63.299. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation. 

Date

V-IV 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

One possible reading is delta and omicron: ΔΟ. The delta shape could also be read as angular rho, but it is less likely, considering the date of the vessel. Probably a commerical notation.

 

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