II.1.1 360. Incertum (commercial?), uncertain date.

Monument

Type

Neck fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.8, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Sector "Г", half-squares 190, 194, yellow-clay layer. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1968, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.68.112. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

4.8

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

Uncertain date. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Could be a single chi or a chi followed by other letters. An unclassified chi-shaped mark cannot be excluded, although the size of the strokes, the vessel (amphora), and position (on the neck) suggest a greater likelihood of letters.

 

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