II.1.1 257. Commercial(?) notation, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Shoulder fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, proto-Thasos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, semi-dugout XLVIII. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.87.153. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Shoulder fragment, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.6 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation. 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

, . 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

[- -Τ̣]Α Alternatively, the horizontal stroke to the left of alpha might belong to a dzeta.

 

Images

 

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