II.1.1 276. Commercial(?) notation, ca. 550 BCE

Monument

Type

Fragment of base and floor. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.6.2.

Additional description

Cup kylix, N. Ionia, ca. 550 BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 867, 868, humus layer. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.219. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Floor, interior. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation 

Date

Ca. 550 BCE 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Π̣

Diplomatic

Π̣

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Either a pi, or part of a meander segment, which would make it an unalphabetic mark.

 

Images

 

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