II.1.1 249. Commercial notation, 1st quarter V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.11.2, W., Th., Diam.15.2 (rim).

Additional description

Neck and shoulder fragment of amphora, Miletos, 1st quarter V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 46, northern half, pit 5. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1978, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б78.191. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial notation 

Date

1st quarter V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

ΛΕ

Diplomatic

ΛΕ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

The first letter is uncertain: it can be lambda, delta, or alpha. Lambda is restored per examplum.

 

Images

  

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