II.1.1 236. Commercial(?) mark, Late Archaic.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, Late Archaic.  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Г, half-square 29, fill of medieval semi-dugout. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1966, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.217. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3

Text

Category

Commercial(?) mark 

Date

Late Archaic. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Dzeta most likely (Ζ).

 

Images

 

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