Abstract | During the excavations of the Greek urban necropolis Volna 1 on the Taman Peninsula several bronze vessels and tools of very rare shapes were found in the burials of the 5th centuryBC.The objects under discussion are represented by forms that are rare not only for the North Pontic region.There is every reason to assume the Apulian origin of the patera from the burial no. 44, which so far have been represented by seven specimens from the Rutigliano necropolis in Apulia and one – from Macedonia.No less rare is a bronze instrument for sampling wine, a clepsydra, now often called water / wine thief или Weinheber, originating from the same burial (a total of 11 pieces are known together with the find under discussion, including two – of the unknown origin), represented by finds both from Central (Lazio) and South (Campania, Calabria and Basilicata)Italy, and Central Greece (Boeotia, Phocis) (all made of bronze) and a silver piece from an aristocratic Thracian burial in the Plovdiv region.Like the clepsydra, the bronze cheese grater from the burial no. 140-2 is an element of the Italic and Greek elite wine drinking culture, which confirms the high status of both the burials in which they were found and the necropolis as a whole. |
Keywords | Greek and Italic bronze vessels and instruments of rare forms, wine drinking devices of the Greek and barbarian elite, necropoleis of South Italy, Greece, Thrace and the Northern Black Sea region of the Late Archaic and Classical times, Taman Peninsula, Volna 1 necropolis. |