II.1.1 347. Incertum (commercial? mark), late VI - early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, proto-Thasos, late VI - early V 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.87.156. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.4 (preserved)

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial? mark) 

Date

Late VI - early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

, . 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Might be a delta, with the bottom stroke not fully reaching the left diagonal. Alternatively, a rho with the loop does not fully close.

 

Images

 

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