This is the first electronic edition of inscriptions from Borysthenes, an ancient Greek settlement on the island of Berezan, located in the Dnipro-Buh delta, in modern Ukraine: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226545. In antiquity, this piece of land was a promontory connected to the mainland, and it shows the first traces of ancient Greek presence in the 7th century BCE, making it one of the earliest Greek sites in the Black Sea.

The site has been excavated since ca. 1900 by archaeological teams from various institutions, first in tsarist Russia, then in the Soviet Union, and following the dissolution of the latter in 1991, from Ukraine, and the Russian Federation. As a result of the complex history of excavations and due to geopolitical changes over time, material from the site ended up in several museums and repositories in Ukraine and the Russian Federation. The vast majority of inscriptions from Borysthenes (Berezan) are graffiti and dipinti on pottery. The importance of ceramic supports for the organization of the corpus justifies publication of collections of each museum and repository separately (Parts 1 - 4), similarly to the approach adopted in the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. This approach also recognizes separate authority of specific national institutions over heritage managemeent in each case. A Table of Contents is provided for each Part, and at the same time, following standard epigraphic conventions, a Unified Table of Contents for the volume (II) fascicle (1), representing the geographic area of Borysthenes as a whole, is made available, combining Tables of Contents for each Part. At the same time, faceted search capability of the database allows selections of lemmata according to researchers' individual interests.

The introduction, epigraphic editions and commentaries are by Irene POLINSKAYA. The inscriptions were encoded following the EpiDoc Guidelines for use of XML for ancient documentary editions, and the website and supporting materials are the work of Gabriel BODARD, Irene POLINSKAYA and colleagues at the Department of Digital Humanities and King’s Digital Lab, King's College London.

Inscriptions - unified Table of Contents for ALL collections (Parts 1 - 4)

The unified ToC corresponds to the currently published collections and will be updated as new collections become available. The groupping of inscriptions in this volume is based on the identification of Categories of Text and, for texts on ceramic supports, on the identification of stages in the life cycle of pottery. Detailed principles of corpus structure are presented in the Introduction. Inscriptions are also accessible via Indices, Ins. # window and the Search Corpus interface.

Individual Collections