This article surveys source study issues in historiographic analysis of the so-termed “Bosporan minor epigraphy” during the period from the sixth to the beginning of the third century B.C. The author has analyzed the value of graffiti and dipiniti information for investigating the problems of Bosporan socioeconomic development. The article focuses on the applicability of information contained in the fragments of the Thassian amphora from Cape Zyuk (northern Kerch Peninsula) antique settlement. The results of the research show that application of “minor epigraphy” analysis in classical Zenon's Chersonesos chora and hideland size modeling does not seem possible.
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