II.1.1 43. Incertum (ownership?), 1st half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.8.0, W., Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Attica, 1st half VI century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, pit 79. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1991, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.91.158. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3.7

Text

Category

Incertum (ownership?) 

Date

1st half VI century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

[---]Φ̣Υ̣Λ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---]Φ̣Υ̣Λ̣[---]

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/><gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>Φ̣Υ̣Λ̣<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

The sequence of the partially preserved letters could be read in two ways. Firstly, retrograde, which is my preference, so phi, ypsilon, lambda. On this reading, ypslion has a common shape of a funnel, with the right diagonal starting slightly above the bottom of the left stroke, which is nearly vertical. If we rotate the fragment 180 degrees and read it orthograde, we would have phi, lambda, ypsilon. In this case, lambda would have two diagonals not starting from the same apex, which wwould be atypical for the Archaic period.

 

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