II.1.1 6. Ownership(?) inscription, 550-540 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Foot fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, BG, band cup, 550-540 B.C.E. (class of Athens 1104), close to gora XII, no. 383-384 (A).  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, half-square III, semi-dugout, depth 1.50-2.20 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1963, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.63.212. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, underside, funnel slope. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. Orthograde. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.4-0.8

Text

Category

Ownership(?) inscription. 

Date

550-540 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Ἀριστ[---]

Diplomatic

ΑΡΙΣΤ[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>Ἀριστ<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/> 
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

Ἀριστ[- -] on the underside of a foot is likely to be the beginning of a personal name - indicating an ownership inscription. There would be too little space to include also a deity's name, making it a dedication. Sigma is four-bar, with very short lower bar; rho with triangular loop, but there seems to have been an attempt to round it.

 

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