II.1.1 64. List of names, ca. 525-500 BC B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Fragment of base and floor, shaped ostracon.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H.11.2, W.7.3, Th., Diam..
Additional description
Attica, bowl, ca. 525-500 BC B.C.E, close to Agora XII, nos. 785-787.
Find place
Berezan.
Find context
Grid square 111, grey-clay layer, depth 0.4-0.6 m.
Find circumstances
Found in 1975, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Б.75.204.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Interior, floor. Originally inscribed on ostracon.
Lettering
Graffito. The shape is rho is distinctive: narrow angular loop in Hierex, with the bottom part of the loop extending beyond the vertical.
Letterheights (cm)
1.5
Text
Category
List of names
Date
Ca. 525-500 BC B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>[Ἱ]ερήξ vacat Τεσ[- -]
<lb n="2"/>[- -]ρατης
<lb n="3"/>Α[- -]δωρος vacat Τ̣
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
[- - Κρ?]άτης Τεσ̣[ία - -] Tokhtasiev | [- ca. 5 -]δωρος T[- -] Tokhtasiev| A[- -] Tokhtasiev
Translation
Commentary
At least four names are inscribed in circular fashion on the interior surface and along the perimeter outlined by the line that matches the diameter of the base.
Quite likely, the alpha below omicron of [- -]δωρος is actually the beginning of the same name, either e.g. Apollodoros or Athenodoros, which spirals around. S.R. Tokhtasiev (“Граффити.” Борисфен-Березань. Начало античной эпохи в Северном Причерноморье. Каталог выставки. Государственный Эрмитаж, St. Petersburg, 2005, no. 265, p. 140) did consider this possibility, although did not reflect this in his edition; in the commentary, he proposes Achillodoros.
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