II.1.1 7. Ownership(?) inscription, ca. 525-500 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of ring foot. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W.3.6, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Attica, stemmed dish, 525-500 B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, no. 974). 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Б, grid square 13, western part, northern half, grey-clay layer, 0.65-0.90 m. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.77.139. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field 1

Position

Foot, underside, on resting surface. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.4-1.0

Text 1

Category

Ownership(?) inscription. 

Date

ca. 525-500 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date, palaeography. 

Edition

[---]ραγόρης

Diplomatic

[---]ΡΑΓΟΡΗΣ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="textpart" subtype="inscription" n="1">
      <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>ραγόρης
       <lb n="2"/>
      </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

One possible personal name that can be restored here is῾Ηραγόρης. It is, in fact, attested several times at Borysthenes: LGPN V4-18219, VI-V cent BCE (Tolstoi 41 ; = LSAG2 p. 372 no. 58 (vase)); LGPN V4-18221, IV cent BCE (SEG L 702 III, 3); LGPN V4-18220, IV cent BCE (Dubois, IGDOlbia 106, 7 ; = SEG XLIV 669); LGPN V4-18223, III cent BCE (Dubois, IGDOlbia 109, 5 ; = SEG XXXVII 673); LGPN V4-18222, IV-III cent BCE (IOlbia 71 II, 4 ; = Dubois, IGDOlbia 11).

Another possible personal name here is Μοιραγόρης, also attested at Borysthenes: LGPN V4-20038, V cent BCE (Dubois, IGDOlbia 101).

We cannot also exclude additional possibilities, not previously attested at Borysthenes, e.g. Ἰητραγόρης, attested at Miletos in the 5th cent. BCE (LGPN V5b-21606 and V5b-21607); Κυδραγόρης, attested on Thasos, V/IV cent BCE (LGPN V1-37949); Λαμπραγόρης on Chios (LGPN V5a-41774); Μανδραγόρης on Chios, Miletos, Samos (LGPN V1-48875, V5b-23055, V1-46646); Σφοδραγόρης on Thasos (LGPN V1-39364, V1-37052, V1-37401).

 

Images

 

Epigraphic field 2

Position

Base, underside, centre. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Text 2

Category

Incertum 

Date

Ca. 525-500 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date, palaeography. 

Edition


Diplomatic


EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="textpart" subtype="inscription" n="2">
      <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>
      <lb n="2"/>
      </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

?. Ν

 

Images

 

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