II.1.1 292. Commercial notation, ca. 400 B.C.E.
Monument
Type
Saltcellar.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H.2.7 (inv card), W., Th., Diam.5.2 (inv card).
Additional description
Saltcellar, Ionia, imitation of Attic, black glaze, close to type 934 (Agora XII), ca. 400 B.C. E. Fully preserved.
Find place
Berezan.
Find context
Unknown.
Find circumstances
Found in 1900, excavations of G.L. Skadovsky.
Modern location
Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Institution and inventory
The State Hermitage Museum, Б.89.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Base, underside.
Lettering
Graffito.
Letterheights (cm)
2.1
Text
Category
Commercial notation.
Date
Ca. 400 B.C.E.
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/><orig>ΑΡΤ</orig>
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
Commentary
Inscribed on the whole vessel. Monogram probably consisting of three letters that could be read as ΑΡΤ, ΤΡΑ, ΡΑΤ?. I lean towards reading ΑΡΤ (as an abbreviation of a theophoric name, e.g. Artemios or Artemidoros. The mark is similar to Johnston 1979, 9E, no. 115.
Inventory card contains no infomation on the context of find and provides only a facsimile drawing of the graffito, no attempt to read it
Received from the Archaeological Commission in 1904.
Images
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