II.1.1 523. Incertum, ca. 500-480 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of foot. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, BG stemmed dish, ca. 500-480 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 913, 914, grey-clay 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.86.197. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, flaring part, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.13-0.65

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

Ca. 500-480 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

It may be a sequence of three letters pi (if the second vertical not attached to the horizontal is not attached accidentally - writing practing exercise? But it also may be the end of the word -ΤΙ folloewd by Π? Π

 

Images

 

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