К биографии Асандра: путь к престолу
To the biography of Asander: way to the throne

Summary/Abstract: It's hard to find a more vivid personality on Bosporan throne than Asander. Born a simple citizen, he was not only able to push for the duration of the throne rightful home Mithridatids, but also to impose their will-powerful Rome. The circumstances that led him to the historic arena, did not go unnoticed. On Asander wrote Appian, Dio Cassius, Strabo and pseudo-Lucian. However, they collected information proved to be extremely fragmentary. The fact that the ancient historians, presenting interesting episodes from the life of their Asander not consider it necessary to coincide with their eras existed then. Several informative sites epigraphy. However, they do not contain the desired information. The object of our study were coins of Archon Asander. Assumptions were developed by the method of attribution trim stamped on the obverse of his staters and decryption abbreviations stamped on their reverse. As a result, were able to trace the stages of his struggle for the throne Bosporus. Take out the results of our research on the scientific discussion.

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