II.1.1 242. Commercial mark, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Rim, wall, and handle fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwest Sector, square 5, Pit 34. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.74.238. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior, just below the rim, left of the handle. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.1

Text

Category

Commercial mark 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Θ

Diplomatic

Θ

EpiDoc (XML)

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