II.1.1 499. Incertum on shaped roundel, Archaic or Classical.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment, shaped as rounded ostracon. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Roundel shaped from the wall of N. Ionia, cup, VI century B.C.E.  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, semi-dugout XLVIII. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1987, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.87.161. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on ostracon(?). 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.5

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

Archaic or Classical. 

Dating criteria

. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Might be a sigma or mu, but it is not absolutely clear whether the mark was inscribed on the ostracon, or the ostracon was shaped from a inscribed wall of Archaic cup: the mark is not centered, and there is a fragment of a vertical stroke on the edge of the piece, so the graffito may have been longer on the original wall fragment used for this roundel.

 

Images

 

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