II.1.1 522. Incertum, ca. 500 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Fragment of foot and lower part of walls. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H., W., Th., Diam.6.0.

Additional description

Skyphos, Attica, close to nos. 318-332 (Agora XII), ca. 500 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, grid square 811, grey-clay layer. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1986, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.86.207. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Foot, underside, convex sides. Originally inscribed on complete(?) vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.4-0.6

Text

Category

Incertum 

Date

Ca. 500 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

The short vertical strokes incised perpendicular to the circumference have to be deliberate, but their significance is unclear.

 

Images

 

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