II.1.1 176. Production or commercial mark, ca. 525-500 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.8.5.

Additional description

North Ionia, stemless cup, ca. 525-500 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector 3, half-square 74а, depth 0.4-0.7 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1974, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.74.112. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Dipinto. 

Letterheights (cm)

3 (preserved)

Text

Category

Production or commercial mark. 

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

The mark might be epsilon, but the break may have cut off parts of two letters, perhaps lamba and iota or iota and ypsilon.

 

Images

 

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