II.1.1 263. Commercial notation, early VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base and wall. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Mug, with white angobe, Chios, early VI century BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, cavity in the ground in grid square 863. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1985, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.212. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.4

Text

Category

Commercial notation 

Date

Early 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

Identification of mug - (Tocra II, P. 3 - acc. to Yu. Ilyina). Single alphabetic mark or monogram?

 

Images

 

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