II.1.1 80. Oval-shaped ostracon with graffito, ca. 525-500 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Shaped ostracon made from wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.2.5, W.2.5 (preserved), Th., Diam..

Additional description

Attica, BF eye cup, 525-500 B.C.E. Sherd shaped as rectangle with glazed edges rubbed off along the perimeter. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area A, grid square 146, eastern half, grey-clay layer. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.78.129. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, interior. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

Ca. 525-500 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

Shaped ostraca made from a wall of a BG open vessel are a common find on Berezan and at Olbia. Often these roundels are not inscribed. The back of the ostracon shows part of an eye of the original painted decoration of an Attic eye-cup. It is possible that the choice of the potsherd for making the shaped ostracon was determined by the presence of this decoration: there is noticeable preference for fragments of painted pottery for some shaped ostraca.

 

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