Graffiti on the Walls of Buildings in Scythian Neapolis
Journal: Anthropology & Archeology of Eurasia
Year: 2012

Investigating from 1955 to 1957, Ol'ga Dashnevskaia and a team from the Russian Academy of Sciences surveyed the site of Scythian Neapolis near Simferopol, Ukraine. The ancient site developed in the third century B.C.E. and was significant enough to become the focus of Soviet-American cooperation, led by Paul Schultz. It featured numerous symbol-like etchings, graffiti that appeared on walls and pedestals in the main area of investigation, Building A. Dashnevskaia compares them to examples of in