II.1.1 255. Commercial(?) notation, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Amphora. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Wall fragment of amphora, proto-Thasos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 18 - half-square 19, northern half, humus, depth down to 1.10 m. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.78.196. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.9 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation 

Date

Early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Ε

Diplomatic

Ε

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Ε̣ retrograde.

 

Images

 

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