II.1.1 294. Commercial notation, early IV century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.7.8.

Additional description

Ionia (? or local), fish plate, early IV century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Г, half-square 29, ashy layer, depth down to 2.50 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1966, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.145. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.0-1.2

Text

Category

Commercial notation. 

Date

Early IV century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Λ Λ Λ - whether this is an alphabetic mark or a symbol consisting of three anlges is difficult to say, but more likely the latter. It is unlikely to be an Ionic numeral as lambda stands for 30 and there is a separate mark (koppa) for 90.

 

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