Roman Stoyanov

The monograph is devoted to the publication and analysis of materials of the 5th–1st centuries B.C., obtained as a result of extensive archaeological researches, conducted under the guidance of the Imperial Archaeological Commission on the territory of the necropolis of the Greek colony of Chersonesos, located on the Crimean Peninsula in the Northern Black Sea region. The first two chapters of the monograph provide a description and general overview of the topography and history of the excavations, analyze the structural characteristics and typology of the funerary structures discovered in the necropolis. Individual chapters present a reconstruction of the funerary traditions and practices of the inhabitants of Chersonesos, as well as an analysis of the main variants of arrangement and orientation of the skeletal remains and funerary structures recorded in the necropolis.
The last chapter presents a comprehensive analysis of the groups and types of objects accompanying the funerary assemblages, whose use was conditioned by the funerary rites and practices of the population of Chersonesos in the pre-Roman period. The monograph is accompanied by a catalogue with descriptions of funerary structures and assemblages from the necropolis excavations of 1891–1914. The book is addressed both to specialists and researchers, as well as to the general public interested in the history of Chersonesos and the Crimea.
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The article presents a preliminary publication of the collection of Eastern Greek pottery found during the excavations at the ancient settlement Balan, the Ochamchira region of Abkhazia in 2017–2022. The published material is a part of the finds from a complex of ashy soil and a platform with a fireplace discovered at the site. The collection consists of fragments of vessels for storing and drinking wine, produced in the period from ca. 620 to ca. 550 BC. At present, this is the earliest known archaic pottery assemblage discovered in the Eastern Black Sea region.

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Раскопки городского некрополя были частью многолетних систематических исследо-
ваний Херсонеса Таврического, проводившихся под руководством Императорской Археологической Ко-
миссии. Транспортные амфоры, происходящие из этих раскопок, хранящиеся в фондах государственного
историко-археологического музея-заповедника «Херсонес Таврический» и Государственного Эрмитажа,
были изданы под руководством С.Ю. Монахова. Дневники и отчеты этих раскопок позволяют дополнить
информацию о контексте находок отдельных амфор, уделив особое внимание вопросам соотнесения сосу-
дов с погребальными комплексами.

The article discusses one of the variants of the image of the tendril goddess (Rankenfrau) with the mask of a satyr recorded in depictions on plates found in Chersonesos Taurica, in the funerary complex within the Kul-Oba burial-mound and also in a burial-mound near the village of Ivanovskaya (Fig. 1–3). Examination of the context for each of the finds and also their comparison allows the assumption that they were all used to decorate apparel – the head-dress of a priestess. The image of the goddess depicted on these plates can be traced back to the iconographic type  of the Potnia Theron. The combination of images of the winged goddess and a satyr mask in a single item is probably linked with the cult of Artemis Orphia.

The article presents a publication and a comprehensive analysis of painted and black-glazed pottery finds from the Hellenistic necropolis of Tauric Chersonesos during the excavations conducted by А.N. Shcheglov in 1963. The largest part of the collection consists of black-glazed tableware: fish plates, saltcellars, bowls. A typological analysis allows dating the assemblage within the fourth–third centuries BCE.

The article presents the publication and a comprehensive analysis
of pottery finds from the burial M26 and a ritual fireplace, connected to it. The burial was investigated in the Hellenistic necropolis of Tauric Chersonese during the excavations, conducted of А.N. Ščeglov in 1963 (fig. 1). The site located on the Eastern slope of Pesochnaya Bay, along the ancient road leading to the Western city gate (Fig. 2).
Most of the ceramic debris was collected from the ritual fireplace and the burial M26. There were 3015 ceramic fragments in total (tabls. I–III). The largest part of the pottery fragments in the assemblage presented by Black-glazed tableware: fish plates, saltcellars, bowls (figs. 3–5). Plane wares: lopadions, jugs and plates (fig. 6). The total amount of 90–130 whole vessels might be estimated at the assemblage. Analysis of the types and forms allows dating the assemblage within the end of IV – third quarter of III c. BC.

The article presents an overview of the complex of pottery originating from the basement (CK2) from the settlement Zavetnoe 5 at the Eastern
Crimea (fig. 1–2). The chronological boundaries of a series of transport amphorae
fit within the interval from the 70s to the 2nd quarter of the 3rd cent. BC. (fig. 3–7).
By the same period are dated groups of table uncovered (fig. 9–11), kitchen
(fig. 12) and hand-made pottery (fig. 13). There are no specimens of the III
cent. BC among the black glaze vessels from the complex (fig. 8). Such vessels
were used in everyday life longer than other groups of pottery. The «delay» of the
black-glaze pottery in this case, is not less than a quarter of a century. The exception in this case is only the lamps whose dating coincides with the group of transport amphorae (fig. 14). The obtained data are consistent with the stratigraphy of
the complex, indicating that the filling of the basement, connected with the construction of one of the premises of the Hellenistic manor, was made in the 1st half
of the 3rd cent. BC.

This note presents black-figure pottery from the excavations of the ancient settlement of Menekse Çatağı (‘Violet crossroads’). It is located on the north-west shore of the Sea of Marmara, 12 km north-east of Tekirdağ. The site was excavated between 1993 and 2007. The collection consists of 27 fragmented vessels. By the form they are divided into tableware and vessels for oil and perfumes. The collection covers the period from the second half of the 6th to the first half of the 5th century BC.

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Imitations of well-known production centers ceramic products were widely spread in Antiquity. This thesis can be illustrated with an example of a black-figured stamnoid pyxis, originating from the excavations of the settlement of Meneche Chatai, in Propontis. It is located on the northwest shore of the Sea of Marmara, 12 km northeast of Tekirdag, in Turkey .The site was excavated in 1993-2007 [For details, see: Стоянов, Эрим-Оздоган 2014: 166-167].
The pyxis mended from the fragments; a bottom and base are absent. On the shoulder are bands of dashes and dots. The handles and lover part of the body glazed. It’s decorated with zoomorphic frieze of a degenerate type with rosettes and palmettes below the handle-zone. According to the context of the find, the vessel dates back to the end of the 6th – beginning of the 5th cent. BC.
At first sight the shape of vessels refers to the so-called “convex-sided with upright handles”, Corinthian type black-figured pyxis, dated from the Middle to the Late Corinthian II [Amyx 1988: 449-450]. But handles of the pyxis from Propontis are situated lower on the top of the body and the lip is wider and not as high, than for Corinthian ones. Moreover, Corinthian pyxides of the type are decorated with animals without the uses of rosettes are very rare among the Corithian export in that period. In addition to this, we note that the finds of the pyxides belonging to this period outside of Corinth are single .
Convex sided pyxides with handles are extremely rare among the Attic products. We know only two vessels of this form called “spherical pyxis” by publisher [Vanderpool 1938: 407-4114; Moore, Phillipidis 1986: 49, 50]. The form of Attic convex sided pyxides imitates Corinthian ones and the style of their painting is very different from the one we are considering. At the same time, the palmettes, located under the handles, copy the form of palmettes with an "eyes" chain, widespread in Atticus vase-painting of the 6th – beginning the 5th cent. BC. [eq: BAPD : 302175, 32477; Eliot, Eliot 1968. 345-367].
The closest proportions to the form of the pyxis from Meneche Chatai are the Convex-sided pyxis found in Rhodes and in the Northern Aegean region. These vessels were attributed to local products [Perron 2012: 139 next]. None of these vessels is decorated with an animalistic frieze or palmettes. On the other hand, they have the same zoning of glazed elements and decorative painting belts, as well as the presence of a vertical stick ornament in upper part of the vessel's body as in the pyxis from Propontis.
Thereby, the features listed above make it possible to classify the pyxis from Meneche Chatai as production one of the centers located in Northern Aegean region. The presence of a mural decoration that imitates painting Corinthian and Attic pixis explained not only by the popularity and prestige of their products, but also by the influence that these exporting centers exerted on local ceramics producers during the specified period.

Tauric Chersonesos occupies the territory of Chersonesos cape in the southwestern part of Heraclea peninsula in the Crimea.The vessels to be discussed were found during archaeological excavations conducted by the Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission in 1901, 1905 and 1907 and by the Chersonesos Museum in 1963.The hydriai are divided into two groups on the ground of the features of their shapes.

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This article is devoted to an analysis of materials from the excavations of the Kara-Oba burial-mound led by the director of the Kerch Museum, A. E. Lyutsenko, in 1859-1861 (Figs. 1-6). During those excavations and also the continuation of the investigation of the burial-mound in the 1960s (Fig. 7), data were obtained indicating that this site had been linked to both Greek and barbarian cultures, which made it possible to date it to the end of the 2nd century BC. However, despite the intensive research that has been carried out there for many years, the question as to the function of the site still remains unresolved.
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The paper presents the collection of black- and red-figured pottery from the exca­vations of the Antique settlement of Menekse (Jatagi, situated on the northwestern shore of the Marble Sea, 12 north-east of the modem Turkish town of Tekirdag (fig. 1). The collection consists of 33 fragments of kitchenware and vessels for cosmetics and oil, dated to the second half of the Vi-first half of the V c. BC (fig. 2-5). Worthy of special note among the black-figured vessels is a rare pyxis, produced in one of the East Mediterranean centers, probably on Rhodes (fig. 2, 7; 5, 7). The most conspicu­ous of the red-figured vessels are the neck of an oinochoe belonging to the Agora P 15849 class, bearing an image of Nike produced by the Shuvalov painter (fig. 4, 7; 5, 3), and a crater fragment with a depiction of the Dionysian thiasos (fig. 4, 2; 5, 5).

Menekşe Çatağı is located on the northwest shore of the Marmara Sea, at 12 km to the north-east from Tekirdağ (Figs. 1-3). A building destroyed by earthquake was unearthed in the eastern sector of the site. The present article is based on the pottery finds from the layer of de-struction in the rooms D and V of the building (Fig. 4; Tab. 1-2). The layer refers to the destruc-tion of the basement or crawl spaces with collapsed parts of the upper floor, walls and roof (Figs. 5-8). The whole and fragmented transport amphorae quantitatively dominate in the ceramic complex. The vessels belong to the production of major vine trade centers in Northern and Eastern Aegean region at the end of VI  the 1st qr. of the Vth cc. BC. (App. 1; Figs. 9-15). Attic pottery from the layer presents with whole and fragmented black- and red-figure vessels (Figs. 16-18). The pottery finds point out that the complex was formed in the end of the VI – the 2nd -3rd qrs. the Vth cc. BC.

Статья посвящена публикации материалов конца VI – начала III вв. до н.э. из раскопок поселения Артющенко 2 в южной части Таманского полуострова. Раскопки поселения проводились в 1998 г. Боспорской экспедицией Института исследования материальной культуры (ИИМК) Российской академии наук. Проведенный анализ различных групп находок позволяет определить время возникновение поселения Артющенко 2 в пределах конца VI – начала V вв. Доминирующей группой керамики из слоев и ям, открытых на поселении, являлись фрагменты транспортных амфор. Без их учета заметное количественное преобладание над другими группами имеют столовая красноглиняная и лепная керамика. Этот факт позволяет с большой долей вероятности говорить о наличии местного керамического производства, а также о заметном присутствии в этот период носителей варварской материальной культуры среди жителей поселения.

minutely analyses history of archaeological study of the Chersonese urban necropolis in the Classic and Hellenistic Time. Although achievements of these studies appear to be significant, the scholars should pay attention to the following problems: a) clarification of necropolis’ topography; b) dating the undated burials and correction of the dates on already dated burials; c) such features like burial vaults and family tombs also require archaeological study