II.1.1 333. Incertum (commercial?), 2nd half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, 2nd half VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, semi-dugout XLVIII. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1987, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.87.152. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

2nd half VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Χ̣

Diplomatic

Χ̣

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

It is impossible to tell whether this is a letter X or a chi-shaped unclassified mark, but in either case, the most likely function is that it is a commercial mark or part of a longer notation.

 

Images

 

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