II.1.1 223. Commercial notation, 2nd half VI century BCE

Monument

Type

Handle fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.8.0, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Clazomenae, 2nd half VI century BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, below the base of masonry wall 57. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1985, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.213. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Handle, overside. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4

Text

Category

Commercial notation 

Date

2nd half VI century BCE 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Monogram mark? Shape: digamma with slanted horizontals and an extra horizontal on the bottom extending on either side of the vertical. See image.

 

Images

 

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