In this paper, we publish some epigraphic poetry fragments. 1) A fragment of the attic kylix (type C) brim from the early 5th century B.C. found in August 2016 in Panticapaeum. It contains two initial verses of a school exercise honouring Dionysus. Their reconstruction gives the following text: ?] ? ?????? ?? ? [???/??? ??] ? ???????[??? e.g. ????? «I sing of Dionysus bringing a lot of joy and loving songs and dance». The inscription gives a new important epiclesis of Dionysus - ?????????? - and makes it possible to identify a rich Dionysian layer in Bosporic toponymy, including the understanding of the name «Bosporus» as «the Way of Dionysus the Ox». 2) The inscription on the pan of kylix of type C (1
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