II.1.1 331. Incertum (commercial?), VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.9.4, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, VI century B.C.E.  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North Sector II, south addition, west of wall 7, grey-clay layer, depth 0.6-0.85 m. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.202. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8 (preserved)

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Α

Diplomatic

Α

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Possibly alpha: there is a segment of a diagonal projecting into the space between the strokes.

 

Images

 

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