II.1.1 244. Commercial notation, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Neck. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.15.7, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

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

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, well. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1982, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.82.299. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

5.8-10.9

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

V

Diplomatic

V

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

The mark is likely an alphabetic mark - an ypsilon.

 

Images

 

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