II.1.1 151. Production mark, pre-firing, no later than 300 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base/floor. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Ionia, redware, closed vessel, no later than 300 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, grid square 8, pit 36. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1975, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.75.309. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.3

Text

Category

Production mark 

Date

No later than 300 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

The mark is shaped like a variation on swastika: the vertical is topped by a short hortizontal like a T.

 

Images

 

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