II.1.1 150. Production mark, pre-firing, 2nd quarter VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Foot fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.5.2.

Additional description

Cup, Ionia, 2nd quarter VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Г, square 29a, northwestern depression. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1967, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.67.103. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.7

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

2nd quarter VI century 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

Could be an alphabetic mark - psi (more likely) or chi, depending on the alphabet: the production centre is not certain. Alternatively, a non-alphabetic mark - bisected angle with upward apex.

 

Images

 

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