II.1.1 246. Commercial notation, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Handle fragment of amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

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

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid squares 669, 719, 769, grey-clay layer, depth 0.45-0.70 m.  

Find circumstances

Found in 1984, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.84.253. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Handle, overside, centered vis-a-vis edges. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.1

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

ΙΙΙ

Diplomatic

ΙΙΙ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Three parallel strokes across the width of the handle. There were possibly more strokes, since the fragment preserves less than half of the handle.

 

Images

 

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