II.1.1 515. Incertum, 560-550 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

BF kylix, lip cup (Siana cup?), CVA Russia, 18, no. 5, p. 15 (A. Petrakova, Attic Black Figure Drinking Cups, part III, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Fasc. 10), Circle of the C Painter, 560-550 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwest Sector, grid square 108, continuation of excavation in square 5. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1974, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.74.131. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

560-550 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

Either a squarish circle or omicron. There is an additional stroke that pivots from the centre of the circle, perhaps a theta.

 

Images

 

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