II.1.1 70. Game board, Archaic-Hellenistic periods.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Mediterranean (Chios?), Archaic-Hellenistic. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, humus layer, grid squares 1016, 1017, 1065, 1068. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1990, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.90.167. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Likely inscribed on ostracon. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

Unknown.

Text

Category

Geometric design representing game board 

Date

Archaic-Hellenistic periods. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Likely, a game board for a variant of nine men's morris.

 

Images

 

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