II.1.1 209. Commercial notation, ca. 500-475 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Neck fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.12.7, W.12.5, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Chios swollen neck type, 1st quarter V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

West sector, Pit 2, depth down to 1.20 m from the day surface. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1962, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.62.84. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Necκ, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

5

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

Ca. 500-475 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Α

Diplomatic

Α

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

The single preserved letter is alpha.

 

Images

 

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