THE CULT OF SABAZIUS IN THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA LITTORAL: MONUMENTS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
Journal: Novensia
Year: 2023

A number of finds from the northern Black Sea littoral, dating from the first three centuries of the common era, have been attributed to the cult of the Thracian-Phrygian deity Sabazius, but hardly ever with complete certainty. The hypotheses put forward regarding the identification of these artifacts are interesting and substantiated in original ways. The article examines this assemblage, which includes hands in bronze and bone, rods of bone, tomb paintings, clay stamps, terracotta statuettes o