II.1.1 48. Incertum (dedication or ownership?), late VI - early V century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Rim fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Attica, BG cup, late VI - early V century B.C.E. (close to Agora XII, nos. 403-413). 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwest Sector, square 5, southwestern corner, depth 0.7-1.0 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1974, excavations of L.V. Kopeykina. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.74.158. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Lip, exterior, along rim. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.3-0.9

Text

Category

Incertum dedication or ownership?) 

Date

Late VI - early V century B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

ΥΡΜ̣ΕΩ

Diplomatic

ΥΡΜ̣ΕΩ

EpiDoc (XML)

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

Translation

 

Commentary

Four letters of the graffito, the first two ΥΡ and the last two ΕΩ seem to be quite clear. The third letter is in doubt: if this is a mu, the shape would be unusual for the Archaic period, with the two middle hastae connecting to the outer hastae below the apices, and the middle hastae approaching each other, but practically not touching at the bottom. If we read Υρμεω as the Genetive of a personal name, no such names appear to have been attested. If this is a misspelling or an unusual phonetization, then perhaps Ἑρμέω was intended and we have a dedication.

 

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