Paleography, dating, text criticism of dozen curse inscriptions from ancient Olbia Pontica

Abstract

At the last 25 years there are published 14 new curse inscriptions from Olbia, all with dating 4th BC. Meanwhile their majority has clear paleography of 3rd and even 2nd centuries BC. The author studies here paleography of 11 inscriptions and finds, that 4 pertains to 4th century, 3 to the end of 4th–3rd century, 3 to 3rd century and 2 to 3rd–2nd centuries BC.  

Keywords

• hellenistic olbia pontica
• curse inscriptions
• paleography
• dating
• text criticism