Lead Letter from the Excavations of Area ‘O-Western’ at the Berezan Settlement in 2017
Journal: Hyperboreus
Year: 2019

In 2017, during excavations of an ancient Greek settlement-site on the island of Berezan in the mouth of the Dnieper and Bug estuary, the expedition of the State Hermitage found a letter on a twice folded lead plate. This letter, on the plate broken on left and right, contains eight lines scratched in boustrophedon style. It was discovered in the ﬁll of a household pit located ca 50 m from the place where, in 1982, a fragmentary lead letter also of the 2nd quarter of the 6th century BC was found