II.1.1 445. Unclassified mark, 2nd half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Amphora wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.15.5, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, 2nd half VI century BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Necropolis, grid square 194, fill of a modern depression in the ground. 

Find circumstances

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

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.229. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

9.4

Text

Category

Unclassified mark. 

Date

2nd half VI 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

Unalphabetic(?) mark. Shape: upside down psi with long vertical.

 

Images

 

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