II.1.1 218. Commercial notation, V-IV century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W.8.2, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Wall fragment of amphora, Chios(?), V-IV century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, quarter-square 28, 22, halfs-square 24, 30, grey-clay layer, depth 0.05-1.50 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1982, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.82.343. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on... 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.8 (preserved)

Text

Category

 

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

Six short vertical strokes, crossed by two long strokes. Numerical notation - tally of some measurement units?

 

Images

 

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