NIKONION
(Roksolany) Ukraine.
Greek settlement, probably a colony of Istria, on the E shore of the
Dniester liman near Odessa (Ps. Skyl. 68). It was founded
in the mid 6th c. B.C. The settlement, 4 ha in area, was
burned in the mid 4th c. B.C., after which it became an
agricultural village. In the 2d c. B.C. it was destroyed by a
natural disaster but recovered and existed into the 4th c.
A.D. It imported mainly Attic wares from the 6th-4th
c. along with some rare specimens of wares from Corinth
and Chios. Coins of Istria predominate from the 5th-4th
c. and, sporadically, coins of Olbia (6th-5th c.) and
Tiras (4th c. B.C.). Particularly noteworthy are some
stamped amphorae from Thasos, Chersonesus, Herakleia
and Sinope. Terracottas (Ionian, 6th c.; Attic, 5th c.)
are predominantly figurines of Demeter and Aphrodite.
From the 1st c. A.D. imported articles disappeared, being
replaced by those of local manufacture. The Odessa
Museum contains material from the site.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. S. Sinitsyn, “Raskopki gorodishche
vozle s. Roksolany Beliaevskogo raiona Odesskoi oblasti
v 1957-1961 gg.,”
Materialy po arkheologii Severnogo
Prichernomor'ia 5 (1966) 5-56; P. O. Karyshkovskii, “K
voprosu o drevnem nazvanii Roksolanskogo gorodishcha,”
Materialy po arkheologii Severnogo Prichernomor'ia 5 (1966) 149-62; I. B. Braşinskij, “Recherches
soviétiques sur les monuments antiques des régions de la
Mer Noire,”
Eirene 7 (1968) 84.
M. L. BERNHARD & Z. SZTETYŁŁO
