II.1.1 190. Commercial(?) notation, 600-575 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment of amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.11.2, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora with white slip, Chios, 600-575 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, enclosure В, below pavement 2. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1984, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.84.231. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.8

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation. 

Date

600-575 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

Possibly ΑΙ or ΑΥ. There is a possible slip of the writing instrument, in the left diagonal stroke of alpha? Small possibility that something else is going on with the letter that I prefer to see as alpha.

 

Images

 

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