II.1.1 461. Unclassified mark, VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Handle fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Clazomenae, VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, grid squares 58-65, southern half, depth 0.4-0.85 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1972, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.72.217. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Handle, overside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.3

Text

Category

Unclassified mark. 

Date

VI 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

A vertical stroke with one horizontal pointing right and placed one third of the way below the top of the vertical, and the second horizontal pointing left placed one third of the way above the bottom of the vertical.

 

Images

 

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