II.1.1 418. Unclassified (chi-shaped) mark, VI century BCE

Monument

Type

Amphora wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.4.4, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Attica, VI century BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 867, 868, humus layer. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1985, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.217. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on ostracon? 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.6

Text

Category

Unclassified (chi-shaped) mark 

Date

VI century BCE 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Chi-shaped mark.

 

Images

 

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