II.1.1 114. Production mark, pre-firing, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Rim and neck fragment of amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, enclosure "Г". 

Find circumstances

Found in 1983, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.83.232. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, just below the rim, right of the handle stub. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.9

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Ι Ι

Diplomatic

Ι Ι

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Two parallel slightly diagonal strokes.

 

Images

 

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