the collector Platonov presented some of the items in his collection to the National Museum of the Ukraine: among these were the two lead plaques which are the subject of this article. They belong to one and the same type of small rectangular reliefs with a semi-circular aedicula, in which multi-figure compositions are arranged in four horizontal registers.Lead plaques of this kind with relief depictions have on several occasions been the subject of special studies. 1 A corpus of monuments associated with the cult of the Danubian horseman and published by Tudor 2 treats such plaques. This work remains to this day the most important source of information on lead plaques: it examines the iconography of the artefacts and the ideology of the cult 3 and also discusses the symbols on the reliefs. 4 It should also be noted that after the publication of the corpus by Tudor, new finds of lead plaques from the territory of Yugoslavia and Austria were published as well as others not previously recorded, which are held in the museums of those two countries. 5 The latest attempt to classify lead plates was undertaken quite recently by Ertl. 6 The lead plaques published here are classified by two types: l) to the Type B(d) according to Tudor's classification which links together rectangular plaques with a depiction of two riders and a goddess or with figures represented in the * The description of the plates and the determination of the possible context for their discovery were maid by V.M. Zubar and L.V. Strokova; the attribution is the work of M.Yu. Treister.
A burial chamber on the western necropolis of Chersonesus yielded, among burial goods of the 2nd-3rd c. A.D., a stamped gold medallion depicting Fortuna and Glycon. The cult of Fortuna was widespread in the Roman Empire, especially after the Antonines, and finds of statuettes show it to have been popular on the N. Black Sea coast too. Images of Glycon, the human-headed snake of Alexander the ps.-Prophet, are uncommon outside Egypt, though are known in Asia Minor: they are very rare accompanied by other deities. It is argued that the medallion was struck at Ionopolis near Miletus and its presence at Chersonesus is not improbable given the intensity of trading links between this city and cities of the S. Black Sea coast in the late 2nd-carly 3rd c. A.D. Also discussed is a two-sided indication, made from a 4th c. B.C. silver coin from Heraclea and found in the same complex of grave goods as the medallion.
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