II.1.1 319. Commercial(?) notation, 2nd half V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, skyphos of Corinthian type, 2nd half V century B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, nos. 318-321).  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector "Г", addition 1, humus, 0.25-0.6-1.4 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1969, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.69.189. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.1

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation. 

Date

2nd half 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

Monogram, of which one letter is epsilon with slanting horizontals, and the second is possibly a chi, formed by an added diagonal across the top slanting horizontal of epsilon, which is longer than the other two. This could be a trademark?

 

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