Abstract
This article is devoted to the Chian pottery found during excavations at Tauric Chersonese. These vessels are considered in the context of the formation of the early ceramic collection of the site and distribution of Chian imports to Greek sites in the Northern Black Sea region. There are unslipped black-fi gure kantharos of the late variant among rare types of Chian imports. We have no opportunity to determine the main painting plot because of a poor preservation of the fragment. But similar vessels from the ceramic deposits at Olbia and Nymfaion allow us to date Chersonesian sherd to the fi rst part of the 5th cent. BC. White-slip forms are presented by fragments of a miniature cup and a close-shaped vessel (olpe?) decorated with brown-painted bands. Their date is limited to the second half of the 6th cent. BC. Finding of these vessels at Chersonese confi rms the upper chronological border of the period of its production that was determined according to the Olbian and Berezan fi nds. With that these sherds are one of the earliest in the Chersonesian ceramic collection. Also several white-slip kantharoi are known. One complete vessel was found in the burial and two fragmentary forms were found in the city. This type was widespread until the beginning of the 5th cent. BC. Apart from white-slip kantharoi, there are three monochrome black-glazed kantharoi in the Chersonesian collection. Based on the features of their shape they should be dated within the frame of the end of the 5th and the fi rst half of the 4th cent. BC. At the same time, I know about a dozen sherds of greyware vessels that seem to be imitations of the black-glazed kantharoi. They completely copied Chian shape and are covered with dark slip. These vessels were found in the ceramic deposits of the end of the 5th and the fi rst half of the 4th cent. BC. That is they were in sync with their prototypes. It is still not clear where greyware kantharoi were imported from.
Keywords
Tauric Chersonese, Chian pottery, greyware pottery, Greek colonization, chronology.
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