II.1.1 111. Production mark, pre-firing, VI-V century B.C.E

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.17.0, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Lesbos, redware, VI-V century B.C.E.  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, half-square III, IV, quarter-square V, depth 0.4 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1965, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.65.193. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior, just below rim. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

VI-V 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

The mark is shaped as bisected-angle or upside down psi.

 

Images

 

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