II.1.1 62. Incertum (ownership or dedication), ca. 300-275 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Rim fragment with part of wall. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, kantharos, ca. 300-275 B.C.E. (close to Agora XXIX, no. 72). 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Chance find, south border of the settlement. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1970, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.70.171. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Lip, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.7-1.1

Text

Category

Incertum (ownership or dedication?) 

Date

Ca. 300-275 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

[- -]ΡΙ̣Σ Εϝ̣[- -]

Diplomatic

[--]ΡΙ̣ΣΕϜ̣[--]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>[- -]ΡΙ̣Σ Εϝ̣[- -]
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

Remains of five letters are preserved. From the left break, the remaining strokes suggest a rho, iota or ypslion, and sigma. There appears to be some space between the sigma and epsilon, so I am inclined to take -ΡΙΣ or -ΡΥΣ as word ending, possibly of a personal name. It is hard to be certain whether we have an iota with some extra strokes (doubling of the vertical, which fails to be parallel, with a short horizontal stroke at the apex of this second vertical), or a very narrow ypslion. There are dozens of names in Greek that end in -ρις and -ρυς, so options for restoration are many. The two letters before the right break are epsilon (definitely) and digamma (probably). The two letters follow each other in the Ionic alphabet (and numerically stand for 5 and 6), but another name is also possible.

 

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