II.1.1 434. Unclassified (star-shaped) mark, ca. 425 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Saltcellar. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.2.9 (inv card), W., Th., Diam.6.8.

Additional description

Attica, ca. 425 B.C.E. (Agora XII, type 941). Nearly fully preserved, part of rim missing. Diam. rim 6.8, Diam. base 4.8 

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.91. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside, off centre. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.5

Text

Category

Unclassified (star-shaped) mark. 

Date

Ca. 425 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

A star-shaped mark (chi with additional vertical through the intersection). Exactly the same mark is found alone on late VI century BF Attic pots: Johnston 1979, 85, type 32A(i) (addenda: 2006, 62). Inventory card contains no infomation on the context of find.

Received from the Archaeological Commission in 1904.

 

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