II.1.1 128. Production mark, pre-firing, late VI - early V centuries B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Proto-Thasos, late VI- early V century B.C.E.  

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector Г, half-square 27, clayish layer, 1.12-1.75 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.66.220. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

Late VI - early V centuries B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Τ

Diplomatic

Τ

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><orig>Τ</orig>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

Τ̣ - a chance that the mark was not alphabetic (possible additional strokes in the lost part on the right), so uncertainty is indicated.

 

Images

 

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