II.1.1 443. Unclassified mark, VI-V centuries B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall or neck fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, VI-V centuries B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Г, half-square 29, fill of semi-dugout, depth down to 2.75 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.66.216. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall or neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.1

Text

Category

Unclassified mark. 

Date

VI-V centuries 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

I think the strokes point downward relative to the rim and suggest an bisected angle character, or if it was closed at the bottom (that part is missing) - a bisected equilateral triangle (cf. Johnston 2004, no. 188 on neck of C6 Massaliot(?) amphora), hence my interpretation as non-alphabetic, but an upside-down psi cannot be excluded.

 

Images

 

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