II.1.1 245. Commercial notation, V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Neck and rim fragment  

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector "Г", half-square 187, depth 1.75-2.0. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1969, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.69.248. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior, below rim. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Υ

Diplomatic

Υ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

If the mark is alphabetic and inscribed vertically in relation to the rim, it can be read as V-shaped ypsilon.

 

Images

 

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