II.1.1 37. Incertum (ownership or sympotic?), ca. 550 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of rim and wall. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Ionia (Samos?), kylix cup, ca. 550 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, enclosure 2. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1991, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.91.165. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior, along rim. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.4-0.5

Text

Category

Incertum (ownership or sympotic?) 

Date

Ca. 550 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

[---]Ρ̣ΙΟ ΓΥ.[---]

Diplomatic

[---].ΙΟΓΥ·[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/><unclear reason="damage">Ρ</unclear>ΙΟ ΓΥ<gap reason="illegible" quantity="1" unit="character"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

[- -]Ρ̣ΙΟ is likely the ending of a personal name in the Genitive, e.g. Ἀπατο̄́ριος is attested at Olbia-Borysthenes at least 8 times from the VI/V to the III cent BCE. Another possible name is Ἀνθεστήριος also attested at Olbia-Borysthenes twice in the IV cent BCE (LGPN V4-15508; ZOOID 23 (1900) p. 19 no. 3), c.250-225 BCE (LGPN V4-15507, SEG XXXIV 758, 2, 46). The earliest name at Olbia-Borysthenes with such an ending is however, Εὐθήριος (VI/V cent BCE, LGPN V4-17798, SEG XLVIII 1012). Δημήτριος is attested at Olbia-Borysthenes some twenty times, but all IV cent BCE and later.

ΓΥ[- -] is the start of another personal name: e.g. Γύλης or Γύλιππος (several more names with the starting combination of gamma and ypsilon are attested)

 

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