MAIASP. 2020. No. 12
N.A.
Pavlichenko
(Saint Petersburg, Russia), D.E. Chistov (Saint Petersburg,
Russia)
Cups of Pythes
and Deinon from Berezan island site and
their archeological context
DOI: 10.24411/2713-2021-2020-00028
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Pages: 887—913
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In the course of excavations in 2016 in the north-eastern
part of the Berezan settlement, sector “O-Western”,
graffiti on two Ionian cups were found. One of them belongs to the “rosette
bowl” type of the 2nd quarter of the 6th century BCE;
the incompletely preserved inscription contains a dedication to Hermes, and
the name of the owner, Deinon. The storage pit in
which this vessel was discovered is dated to the 2nd quarter — mid. 6th century BCE on the
basis of stratigraphy and pottery finds. The second
graffito is inscribed on a large Ionian kylix with
a bent rim (“Knickrandschale”). This long inscription bears the name of the owner, Pythes the son of Pericles. Despite the chronological
proximity, these vessels belong to different periods of the Berezan settlement. The Deinon’s
bowl is synchronous with the dugouts of the early settlement on Berezan, being one of the evidences that Greek population
predominated. The Pytheas’ kylix
seems to reveal the name of the owner of a large multi-chamber stone-and mudbrick house, built in the beginning of the 3rd
quarter of the 6th century BCE.
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Key words: Berezan, Borysthenes,
North Black Sea Region, Greek archaic pottery, graffiti.
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