II.1.1 49. Incertum (ownership?), Late Archaic.
Monument
Type
Shoulder fragment.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H., W., Th., Diam..
Additional description
Greyware jug, Late Archaic.
Find place
Berezan.
Find context
Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 912, 862, 812, humus layer.
Find circumstances
Found in 1986, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Б.86.199.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Shoulder, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel.
Lettering
Graffito.
Letterheights (cm)
0.5. 0.7 (omicron)
Text
Category
Incertum (ownership?)
Date
Late Archaic.
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>ΩΡΑΝΟΣ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
Commentary
If read in Ionic script we expect at Borysthenes, then [- -]ΩΡΑΝΟΣ[- -] is a personal name, we might consider Σωρανός, although it is attested in Ionia (Ephesos) only in the Roman period (LGPN V5a-27816, V5a-38974).
Another possibile restoration is Σκώρανος as a variant of Σκαορανος - both forms are attested in the same inscription - a dedication by a wife and husband to Apollo and Artemis in Lagina, ca. 350 BCE: Lagina 160 (https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/260402?hs=958-967), lines 2 and 21. (IStr 502 = M. Ç. Şahin, Anadolu 17, 1973, 189-192, no. 2 (PH); SEG 26, 1229; BE 1979:466; *IStratonikeia 502 (PH); Hornblower, Mausolus M13; SEG 35, 1092).
Perhaps a variant of Κοίρανος could also be considered, which is attested on Paros in the Archaic period (LGPN V1-5941), on Ikaros in the Classical period (LGPN V1-47138) and on Samos in the 3rd cent BCE (V1-45714). Κοίρανος is perhaps to be compared with the name Κοέρανος attested in Tanagra, ca. 424 BCE (IG VII 585, col. IV.1, line 1) = LGPN V3b-29392.
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