Nikolaev M. Prosopography of political and cult elite of Olbia Pontica V century BC - I century AD (based on synchronization of the eponymous catalogue IosPE. I2. 201).

Olbia Pontica is one of the most important ancient Greek city-states of the Northern region of the Black Sea. The research of Olbia has been being carried out for almost two centuries. A huge number of written sources has been found: lapidary inscriptions, graffiti, ceramic stamps, magic spells and others. Unfortunately, all this heritage is dated inaccurately (untruly). It has not been also considered on the position of chronology and prosopography. Traditional instruments of ancient inscriptions dating (palaeographical, dialectological, etc) have an accuracy of about a century, the process of application of these tools has significant subjective elements. The absence of the unified chronological ground (as well as inaccuracy of existing methods of studying Olbian inscriptions) causes the endless debates. Also, there is no information about generic composition of Olbian communities and their relationship with each other for centuries (that is the foundations of Olbian prosopography).