II.1.1 377. Incertum (commercial?), ca. 350-325 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Saltcellar. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, small bowl, ca. 350-325 B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, no. 838 ). Half of the whole preserved. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Chance find, south border of the settlement. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1970, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.70.170. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.8

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

Ca. 350-325 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Λ.

Diplomatic

Λ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Lambda is clear. The second letter or mark is cut off by the break. There is a vertical and a short diagonal issuing for the top of the vertical, but it seems to turn upward almost immediately creating a squiggle. It might be a sideways sigma, although why it needed to be so compressed would be unclear.

 

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