II.1.1 54. Incertum (dedication or ownership?) inscription, 1st quarter V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of rim. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.3.0, W.3.5, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Attica, BG cup skyphos, close to Agora XII, no. 573, 1st quarter V century B.C.E. Drilled hole (repair?) on the lip. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 47, southern half, well. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1978, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.78.141. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior, below lip. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.7-0.8

Text

Category

Incertum (dedication or ownership?) 

Date

1st quarter V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

[- -]Λ̣ΩΝΙ[- -]

Diplomatic

[--]Λ̣ΩΝΙ[--]

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

We could restore either a divine name [Ἀπόλ]λ̣ωνι or a theophoric personal name e.g. [Ἀπολ]λ̣ώνι[ος - -] or [Ἀπολ]λ̣ωνί[δης - -] in the Nominative or Genitive.

 

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