Preface to the Russian version of ZPE publication of V.G. Borukhovich’s article on interpreting one Berezan inscription (dedicated to the 105th anniversary of the scientist)
Journal: Ancient World and Archaeology
Year: 2025

The essay precedes the Russian translation of the short article by Vladimir G. Borukhovich (1920–2007), a renowned classicist, historian and translator, professor at Saratov State University. Borukhovich’s article was published in English in the German journal Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik (1998, 121, 165–166). Borukhovich disagrees with the interpretation of the Berezan graffito No. 166 proposed by Valery P. Yailenko (1982) and offered his own reconstruction and interpretation of t