II.1.1 216. Commercial notation, V century B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Neck fragment.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H., W., Th., Diam..
Additional description
Chios, V century B.C.E.
Find place
Berezan.
Find context
Sector Г, half-square 28-29, mixed ashy layer, depth 0.7-1.3 m.
Find circumstances
Found in 1966, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.210.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel.
Lettering
Graffito.
Letterheights (cm)
2.4
Text
Category
Commercial notation
Date
V century B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>ΗΡΑ[- -]
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
Commentary
The graffito is more likely to be the name of a producer or merchant, less likely of an owner. The name Ἡρᾶς is attested as a stamp of the eponym Baton and the fabricant Heras in Istria: Thasian amphora handle, ca. 356-343 BC. Θασι(․ν). Βά|τ[ω]|ν. Ἡρᾶ|ς. Found in Histria, published: Histria VIII,1 88, Our graffito could be also compared to the name inscribed on an amphora from Beliaus (N. Black Sea), late IV/early III cent. BCE, SEG 49:1026,2 (Arkheolohiia (1999.1) pp. 177-183). There are two graffiti on this amphora: one is graffito on the rim: ΨΔ (quantity mark?), another graffito below the rim: Ἡρᾶς (producer, merchant, or owner?).
The last but least likely option is that we have a mark of divine property of Hera or Herakles.
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