II.1.1 451. Unclassified mark, Late Archaic.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Greyware, burnished, bowl, Late Archaic. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Grid square 11, fill of ditch. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1977, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.77.171. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, interior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4 (preserved)

Text

Category

Unclassified mark. 

Date

Late Archaic. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

The mark has the shape of an equilateral triangle with angle bisector extended to the apex of the opposite angle of the would-be square.

 

Images

 

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