II.1.1 139. Production mark, pre-firing, early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall or neck(?) fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, proto-Thasos, early V century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector "Г", pit in the bedrock. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1969, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.69.252. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall or neck, exterior Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.3

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

Early 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 shape might be a bisected angle (upside down psi).

 

Images

 

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