II.1.1 303. Commercial notation, ca. 500 B.C.E
Monument
Type
Fragment of ring base.
Material
Clay.
Dimensions (cm)
H., W.7.2, Th., Diam..
Additional description
Attica, stemmed dish, ca. 500 B.C.E. (Agora XII, no. 979 ). Glossed underside with reserved resting surface. Top side of the ring base has poor gloss, that produced streaky brown after firing.
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.105.
Autopsy
August 2016.
Epigraphic field
Position
Foot, underside, funnel, slope.
Lettering
Graffito.
Letterheights (cm)
1.2
Text
Category
Commercial notation.
Date
Ca. 500 B.C.E
Dating criteria
Ceramic date.
<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
<ab>
<lb n="1"/>ΘΕ̣
</ab>
</div>Apparatus criticus
Translation
Commentary
Upright cross theta with one circumference segment drawn as straight line. The second letter is preserved only partially. There is a vertical and a horizontal that seems to meet it at mid-height (if one is to expect a letter of similar height as the theta). The letter could be an epsilon or a wide eta, if it followed theta, the slant of the vertical relative to theta suggests that direction. It could also be an alpha with right-slanting crossbar.
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