II.1.1 174. Production or commercial notation, 2nd half VI century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Fragment of base.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H., W., Th., Diam.5.8.
Additional description
Micro-olpe, North Ionia, 2nd half VI century B.C.E.
Find place
Berezan.
Find context
Northwestern sector, grid square 158-140, western half, humus, 0-0.38 m.
Find circumstances
Found in 1975, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Б.75.136.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel.
Lettering
Dipinto in black.
Letterheights (cm)
1.7 (if sigma). 1.2 (if mu)
Text
Category
Production or commercial notation
Date
2nd half VI century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><orig>Σ</orig>
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
Commentary
It is possible that we have a mu and not a delta, but the flow of strokes, as well as the bulging outward of the shorter outer diagonal, and a slight caving inward of the longer outer diagonal are typical of how sigmas appear in graffiti, e.g., in IGDOP 105.
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