II.1.1 79. Oval-shaped ostracon with graffito, 2nd half VI century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Amphora wall fragment, shaped into a rough oval. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Clazomenae, 2nd half VI century BCE. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, Area Б, below the base of masonry wall 47. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1985, excavations of Ya.V. Domansky. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.85.261. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on shaped ostracon. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

3 (preserved)

Text

Category

 

Date

2nd half VI 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

Amphora wall fragment is deliberately shaped into a rought oval. Exterior surface has multiple roughly parallel strokes, casually scratched close to each, some touching. The function of this graffito is uncertain, as is the function of the ostracon.

 

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