Inscriptions of "α/π" group on narrow-necked light clay amphorae from the excavations on Tyritake in 2002-2007
The publication is devoted to dipinti on late Herakleia narrow-necked light clay amphorae of F and E types, found during excavations of the last ten years on the settlement of Tyritake. All marks considered here are standard and contain similar information given in a uniform way. Inscriptions are made, as a rule, in three or four lines on the neck and shoulders of amphorae. According to the initial abbreviation they are assigned to one of the most common categories of dipinti among the finds in the Northern Pontic area - trade group of «α/π» type inscriptions. As a guideline in the formation of the directory the idea that the majority of these marks on the amphorae contain names or name reductions, the data in a certain stable formula: “(goods) from such and such” is used. Such inscriptions could be reflections of the existence of stable relationships and universally recognized norms in terms of increasing trade in the Northern Pontic area in the second half of the 4 <sup>th</sup> - the beginning of the 5 <sup>th</sup> century AD.