II.1.1 103. Production mark, pre-firing, Late Archaic

Monument

Type

Amphora wall fragment 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Colchis, Late Archaic. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 193, funerary pyre of Burial 124. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1985, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.230. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8

Text

Category

Pre-firing graffito 

Date

Late Archaic 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Τ

Diplomatic

Τ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><orig>Τ</orig>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

Mark L: Lesbos, Archaic. The fragment is burnt black.

 

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