II.1.1 277. Commercial or ownership notation, VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of base and wall. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.5.4.

Additional description

Stemless cup, North Ionia, 3rd quarter VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Grid square 139, grey-clay layer, depth 0.4-0.8 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1975, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.75.105. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Base, underside. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.5-0.7

Text

Category

 

Date

VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

ΠΡΩ

Diplomatic

ΠΡΩ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Name abbreviaion - either of a trader's or owner's. Names starting in Pro- are many. There are other ceramic graffiti at Berezan and Olbia with this abbreviation.

 

Images

 

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