Etruscan bucchero pottery in the northen Black Sea littoral,

Three Etruscan bucchero kantharoi have been recently found in the North Pontic settlements at modern-day Berezan (ancient Borysthenes), and Taganrog (ancient Kremnoi), both Milesian foundations of the 7th century BCE. Both centres yielded several vessels of Greek pottery dated from the early 7th century onwards. As the only finds of Etruscan bucchero in the Northern Black Sea area, the kantharoi are noteworthy. Miletus founded several colonies in the Black Sea and yielded the largest collection of Etruscan bucchero pottery in the eastern Mediterranean, suggesting it may have played the role of a distribution centre for these goods to the North Pontic area.