II.1.1 287. Commercial mark, ca. 500-480 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Cup, Ionia, ca. 500-480 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Unknown. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1900-1901, excavations of G.L. Skadovsky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.92. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.5

Text

Category

Commercial mark 

Date

Ca. 500-480 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Κ

Diplomatic

Κ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

A single letter notation - Κ. These are difficult to interpret, but on the underside it is most likely a commercial mark, perhaps numerical.

 

Images

 

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