VIKTOROVKA I
Ukraine.
A Hellenized settlement dating from ca. 550 to the early 3d c. B.C. on
the steep W bank of the Sositsko-Berezan liman ca. 1.6
km N of its junction with the Black Sea. While a large
part of the site was destroyed by erosion, excavations
have uncovered the remains of several dwellings, various
pits, walls, assorted pottery sherds (Olbian ware, Greek
imports, local hand-made), and even a bronze harpoon.
The earlier dwellings, as in Berezan and other nearby
sites, were semisubterranean. These gave way, in time, to
surface structures with stone walls.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
S. A. Kaposhina, “Iz istorii grecheskoi
kolonizatsii nizhnego Pobuzh'ia,”
Ol'viia i Nizhnee
Pobuzh'e v antichnuiu epokhu [Materialy i issledovaniia
po arkheologii SSSR, No. 50] (1956) 239-54; F. Rudyk,
“Drevnee poselenie Viktorovka I,”
Materialy po arkheologii Severnogo Prichernomor'ia 1 (1957) 63-66.
T. S. NOONAN