II.1.1 148. Production mark, pre-firing, I century C.E.

Monument

Type

Neck fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.7.6, W.4.9, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, South Pontic, I century C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

North sector, half-square II, III, IV, humus, depth 0.4 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1963, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.63.292. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.8 (if vertical). 1.8(if horizontal)

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

I century C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Ζ

Diplomatic

Ζ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

A single letter - dzeta, in my view, rather than eta if read relative to the vertical position of the vessel. There is a slight possibility that the graffito is post-firing.

 

Images

 

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