Two Greek Fragments

These two short Greek inscription witnesses come from the north shore of the Black Sea. One is a damaged Olbian fragment that appears to preserve the phrase "in Scythia"; the other is a Bosporan tile stamp from Myrmekion reading Skytha or Skythas.

They are small records, not narrative sources. Their value is cumulative: they add two more inspected source-language witnesses to the archive's map of how Greek inscriptions named Scythian land, Scythian names, and Bosporan material culture.

The translation below is intentionally spare. Damaged readings remain visibly damaged, and the Myrmekion stamp keeps PHI's uncertainty about whether the form should be read as Skytha or Skythas.

Translation

1. Olbian Fragment Naming Scythia

Fragment a:

[...]

O[...]

As[...]

Po[.]nd[...]

and d[...]

[.]ouro[...]

[...]

Fragment b:

[...] in Scythia? [...]

[...] fire-breathed [...]

[...] much stad[...]

[...]

2. Myrmekion Tile Stamp

Skytha.

Or: Skythas?

Colophon

This Good Works Translation was prepared for the New Tianmu Anglican Church from inspected Ancient Greek inscription records PH184469 / IosPE I² 274 and PH339129 / SEG 37:666,15h. The English is a new rendering from the Greek source text printed below.

The dossier is a small inscriptional witness for Scythian naming in the north Black Sea. It does not claim that the fragments supply a complete event, identity proof, or continuous narrative.

Compiled and translated for the New Tianmu Anglican Church, 2026.

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Source Text: Olbian and Myrmekion Scythian Fragments

Ancient Greek source text from PHI Greek Inscriptions records PH184469 and PH339129. Presented here for reference, study, and verification alongside the English translation above.

IosPE I² 274 / IosPE I 138 / PH184469

PHI identifies this as an Olbian fragment of the first century AD. PHI context: N. Black Sea — Olbia — 1st c. AD — IosPE I 138.

frg. a [— — — — —]
1 Ο.[— — — —]
ΑΣ.[— — — —]
ΠΟ̣[.]ΝΔ[— —]
ΚΑΙΔ[— —]
5 [.]ΟΥΡΟ[— —]
[—]...[— —]
[— — — — —]
frg. b [— — — — — — — — — — —]
1 [— — — —]Ι ἐν Σκυθ̣[ίῃ? — —]
[— — π]υρίπνευστ[ος — — —]
[— — π]ουλὺν ΣΤΑΔ[— — —]
[— — —].ΤΑΚΑΙΟΚΑ.[— —]
5 [— — — —]Ε̣Ο̣[— — — — — —]
[— — — — — — — — — — —]

SEG 37:666,15h / PH339129

PHI identifies this as a retrograde heart-shaped Bosporan tile stamp from Myrmekion, third century BCE. PHI context: N. Black Sea — Myrmekion — 3rd c. BC — Antichnye goroda Bospora Mirmekiĭ (1987) p. 89. PHI note: Heart-shaped stamp; retrograde.  Bosporan tile.

1 ΣΚΥΘΑ (Σκυθᾶ(?); Σκύθα(?)).

Source Colophon

The source texts were inspected from PHI Greek Inscriptions on 2026-05-11. PH184469 is identified by PHI as IosPE I² 274 / IosPE I 138, from Olbia, first century AD. PH339129 is identified by PHI as SEG 37:666,15h, a retrograde heart-shaped Bosporan tile stamp from Myrmekion, third century BCE.

Local source captures and extracted source files are preserved under Tulku/Tools/scythian/sources/expansion_bench_2026-05-11/ as phi_184469_iospe_i2_274_olbia_scythia_fragment_ins37.html, phi_184469_iospe_i2_274_olbia_scythia_fragment_ins37_source.txt, phi_339129_seg_37_666_15h_myrmekion_skytha_stamp_ins37.html, and phi_339129_seg_37_666_15h_myrmekion_skytha_stamp_ins37_source.txt.

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