II.1.1 495. Incertum, 1st half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Foot fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Ostracon - shaped sherd made from foot and floor of N. Ionia, cup, 1st half VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector II, southern addition, west of wall 7, depth 0.6-0.85 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1966, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.66.225. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Interior, floor, centre. Originally inscribed on ostracon. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

1.7

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

1st 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

There is a drilled hole in the centre of the foot and together with graffiti line that outline a rectangle perhaps they are nothing more than guiding grooves for a thread, if the object is a spool for wool thread or something similar.

 

Images

 

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