II.1.1 247. Commercial notation, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Amphora handle. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 23, western half, depth 0.75-0.85 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1980, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.80.138. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Handle, overside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3 (preserved)

Text

Category

Commercial notation 

Date

Early V 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

Three horizontal notches across the handles.

 

Images

 

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