II.1.1 248. Commercial notation., V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment of amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.6.9, W.7.1, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Wall fragment of amphora, Mende(?), V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 58, western half, dugout 1. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1979, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.79.158. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.8 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

V 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

Five roughly parallel strokes connected by a crossbar at one one.

 

Images

 

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