II.1.1 99. Production mark, pre-firing, V-IV century B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

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

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, V-IV century century B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

Northwestern sector, grid square 38, depth 1.12 m. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1972, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.72.213. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Wall, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Pre-firing graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

0.2-0.4

Text

Category

Production mark, pre-firing. 

Date

V-IV 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

Retrograde nu or zigzag shape.

 

Images

 

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