II.1.1 392. Unclasified (cross-shaped) mark, late VI - early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Handle fragment (oval in section). 

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

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.66.201. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Handle, overside. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Unclasified (cross-shaped) mark. 

Date

Late VI - early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Top strokes possibly represent remains of epsilon and bottom strokes - either delta or lambda. So, we may have a ligature: orthograde epsilon with downward slanted strokes with the bottom stroke forms part of a diagonal of delta or lambda.

 

Images

 

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