De titulis Bosporanis et viciniis IV

Древности Боспора. 2021. Т. 26. С. 379–399.

Shelov-Kovedyaev F. V.

This paper continues the series of corrections to some published inscriptions from Cimmerian Bosporus. No 12 (fig. 1, 2) presents the magical phylactery on the silver cup from the castle of Artesian. No 13 (fig. 3, 3a, 4, 4ab) proposes the understanding of graffito on amphora’s fragment from the same castle as defixio on the solders named into it. No 14 insists that the graffito from Phanagoria mentioning the city founder Phanagorus was inscribed around the beginning of third quarter of VI century BC by two hands, one coming from West-Ionian islands. No 15 (fig. 5) brings the new reconstruction of the published fragment from the excavations of Patrasys in 1986. No 16 (fig. 6) formulates the new lecture of the orphic hymn from Panticapaeum recently discussed by Nikolay N. Kazansky. Nos 17 (fig. 7) & 18 rejects the Sergei Yu. Saprykin’s proposals concerning some graffiti from Panticapaeum and the collection of the Kerch State Museum. Nos 19a-d discusses the Valery P. Yailenko’s lectures of four bosporan verse-inscriptions. No 20 publishes the correspondence with Nikolay N. Kazansky about two verse-inscriptions from Hermonassa and Phanagoria.

Keywords: settlement, graffito, граффито, inscriptions, надписи, phylactery, castle, orphic hymn, cup, оберег, цитадель, городище, орфический гимн, канфар