II.1.1 271. Borysthenes.Commercial notation, 600-575 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Rosette bowl. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.7.3 (inv), W., Th., Diam.17.4 (inv).

Additional description

Rosette bowl, North Ionia, 1st quarter VI century B.C.E. Complete vessel, fully restored from fragments. 

Place of Origin

Borysthenes. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Grave 405. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900-1901, excavations of G.L. Skadovsky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.53. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior, lower part, on reserved band between base and painted band. Inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.2-1.8

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

600-575 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

Measure? ΒΙ or ΔΔ? (this is less likely because we do not expect the use of the Attic system on this early Ionian bowl) Or abbreviation of personal name? Came to the Hermitage in 1904. Arch. Comm. record No. 1496.

 

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