II.1.1 321. Commercial(?) notation, 1st quarter IV century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of rim. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W.4.5, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Attica, BG, fish plate, 1st quarter IV century B.C.E., (close to Agora XII, nos. to 1065-1066). 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Area Г, Pit 13.  

Find circumstances

Found in 1965, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russia. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.65.173. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Rim of plate, underside. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.1

Text

Category

Commercial(?) notation 

Date

1st quarter IV 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

A sigma is clear, but there are possible traces of a letter at the break to the left of sigma. If those are in fact traces of a letter, we may have a horizontal at the top and another at the bottom - consistent with epsilon. If the top trace is accidental or result of damage, then we my have an omega. The mark could be commercial, but other possibilities cannot be excluded, e.g. ownership graffito.

 

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