Abstract
This is a publication of a Late-Hellenistic terracotta vessel fashioned as a sleeping slave: a man reclining on his left side with his hands folded under his head. The motif of this vessel belongs to the well-known iconographic types depicting a lazy (or tired) slave waiting for his master with a lantern and/or something like a basket. Although such genre scenes are rare in the Northern Black Sea region, they became especially popular in the Mediterranean during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and therefore were often depicted on oil lamps or small vessels. It is most likely that the fashion for these items came from Italy. The shaped vessel found at the settlement “Akhtanizovskaya-4” is a new example of an item associated with the daily life of the Late Hellenistic – early Roman population of the Cimmerian Bosporus. The published vessel dates from the second and first centuries BC.
Keywords
Classical archaeology, Northern Black Sea region, Cimmerian Bosporus, Late Hellenism, Early Roman period, shaped vessels.
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