Fragments of Lead Letters from Nymphaion
Journal: Hyperboreus
Year: 2017

In 1984, a few fragments of lead letters were found near the ancient Greek townsite of Nymphaion. These tablets included two fragments without inscriptions, two conjoined fragments with a six line text on one side and a fragment of an opisthograph (six lines on one side, ﬁve on the other). The state of preservation and treatment of the edges of these tablets suggest that we are dealing with fragments of two letters dating from approximately the same period. The palaeographical peculiarities, in