II.1.1 365. Incertum (commercial?), Archaic period.

Monument

Type

Fragment of plate. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.5.2.

Additional description

Ionia, stemless cup, Archaic period. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

 

Find circumstances

Found in 1976, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.76.141. 

Autopsy

 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

Archaic period. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

There is a clear vertical stroke that extends almost the full diameter of the interior of the foot, and a semicircle at one end of that vertical, which is bends around that end, creating an umbrella impression, but the vertical and the cap might be an arrow shape.

 

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