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Sea Trade in North Black Sea Region. The collection of scientific articles. Kyiv, 2001
The collection of graffiti on amphora packing from excavations in Kerch, 46-51
Zankin A.B.
Abstract:
Archeological excavations carried out in Kerch (Crimea) in 1990 gave a collection of mediaeval amphorae fragments with graffiti. The collection includes 126 fragments, 103 of them belong to six well-known types of medieval amphorae. Only few signs, that scratched at that fragments can be considered as typical, well known and widely spread over the Black Sea region. They are some graphic symbols and letter inscriptions.
The majority o f the signs belong to unique, difficult for understanding ones. They are a kind of combinations, some times very complicated, of geometrical figures and perhaps letters. One type of signs among them causes especial interest. It appears at 11 amphora fragments of one decent type 18 times. Conditionally it was named “an oval overscored with a line”. This sign has analogies at the nearest territory (Khazaria).
Language: Russian
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Zankin, A.B. 2001. The collection of graffiti on amphora packing from excavations in Kerch. In: Parshina, E.A. (ed.). Sea Trade in North Black Sea Region. The collection of scientific articles (Morska torhivlia v Pivnichnomu Prychornomor’i. Zbirka naukovykh statei). Kyiv: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Society of Archaeology and Anthropology, 46-51. VITA ANTIQUA Library (in Russian).