II.1.1 72. Drawing (ships), ca. 430 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attic, BG, bowl, ca. 430 B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, no. 778 ). 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Chance find. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1962, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.62.63. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Interior, floor, centre. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.2 (upsilon) 1.0 (lambda. if it is)

Text

Category

Drawing (ships). 

Date

Ca. 430 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

Drawings around the perimeter: two hulls of ships with many oars; one of these also has a sail. The other oared ship has some webbed matter on deck - also a sail or rigging? The third figure is probably also a ship's hull.

 

Images

  

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