II.1.1 306. Commercial(?) mark, 500-480 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Foot fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, BG stemmed dish, 500-480 B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, nos. 971, 973) 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, II, Pit 5. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1966, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.119. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, underside. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel, or possibly on the shaped sherd. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.2

Text

Category

Commercial(?) mark. 

Date

500-480 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

A shaped sherd with the foot of this stemmed dish fully preserved and the floor of the cup broken all around in a careful circle slightly smaller in diameter than the foot, with the edges filed off and smooth. Whether the graffito was on the complete vessel (I lean towards this option) before the broken foot was reused is hard to say.

 

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