Bosporus vessels with wild boar-shaped handles: experience of applying cartographic software tools

The paper examines a set of Bosporus vessels with handles shaped asa wild boar, the area of their spread, basic traits, co-occurrence of this type of handlesand other types of ceramic zoomorphic handles. The issues of semantic attribution arementioned as well. New software features of archaeological material mapping tools havebeen illustrated, and possibilities of Terek which is an automated information processingsystem and electronic maps for analytical and representational purposes of the studieshave been demonstrated