II.1.1 101. Production mark, pre-firing., 2nd half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Clazomenae, 2nd half VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, pit 67. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1990, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.90.171. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

5

Text

Category

Pre-firing graffito 

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

This looks like a mu, but there might be a ligature with another letter - external strokes are needlessly long, and the right one might be touching on another stroke reaching from below.

 

Images

 

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