II.1.1 288. Commercial(?) mark, VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall and base fragment of plate. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Ionia, plate, VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

 

Find circumstances

Found in 1975, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.75.104. 

Autopsy

 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Commercial(?) mark. 

Date

VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

, . 

Edition

Σ

Diplomatic

Σ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Mu is less likely, judging by the placement of strokes and the run-through of the writing tool that produced an accidental thin and shallow extension of the top short diagonal.

 

Images

 

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