Pages: 181-191 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp263181191

“The Museum of Antiquities of the Bosporan-Cimmerian Kingdom and the Settlements of the Northern Black Sea Region” founded by I. K. Surutchan in 1882 was located in Chișinău. After the founder’s death in 1897, the collection was sold off, and the whereabouts of many museum objects remain unknown to this day. This article attempts to reconstruct the quantity and inventory of the collection of ceramic stamps based on secondary sources: publications of individual finds, archival materials, and listings in the manuscript of IosPE III. The careful study of the IosPE III enabled tracing the provenance and current location of some of the ceramic stamps.

Keywords: museum of I. K. Surutschan, ceramic stamps, IosPE III, epigraphy, history of the science

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Anna Kovalchuk (Moscow, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 119049, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0009-0005-2716-7374