About date of termination of work of a wine-making complex in the XCVII quarter of Chersonese

О дате прекращения работы винодельческого комплекса в XCVII квартале Херсонеса

Author(s): Sergey V. Ushakov,E.V. Strukova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: Archaeology; Ancient Chersonesus; History; winemaking

In recent years, in the course of archaeological research XCVII quarter of the Northeast region of Chersonese were discovered and documented the remains of the ancient wine-making industry. The paper considers the question of the date of termination of its operation on the basis of analysis of materials grist, which shut the pit to install pithoi. Analyzed archaeological (fragments of amphorae and red-slip pottery) and numismatic material led to the conclusion that pithoi were dismantled, and all space was filled in the late first - early second quarters of the V century.

The excavation of a Kruze basilica in 2010 (short preliminary information)

Раскопки базилики «Крузе» в 2010 г. (краткая предварительная информация)

Author(s): Sergey V. Ushakov,Valentin V. Doroshko,E.S. Lesnaya,M.I. Tyurin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: Archaeology; Chersonesos; Kruze basilica; pottery

In this article consider results of excavation of the basilica Kryze in 2010 year. In central nave of temple dug up cultural layers of the end 5-th till the middle 6-th centuries A.D. and were found pits of late antiquity pifosarium with bottoms of vessels. Also were find and excavated burials of XII–XIII centuries. In south conch of apse investigated the wells filling of Hellenistic time till the deep of 7 meters.

Two iron fibulae Khazar time of Southwest Crimea

Две железные фибулы хазарского времени из Юго-Западного Крыма

Author(s): A.V. Belyiy / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: Archaeology; the medieval Crimea; Khazars; fibula

The author in Bakhchisaray district were found two well-preserved iron objects: two-term fibula to curl at the end of the receiver and the so-called fibula steels with crocodile-spring device. Both products are classified as accidental finds and picked up at a distance of about 8 km apart in the border zone with steppe plain foothills. In this area, between the Alma and Kacha, there are two major series of the Khazar fortress functioned period - Kiz-Kermen and Chufut-Kale. Found in their district iron objects: two-part brooch with curl and fibula on the leg-steels, obviously, have got into the territory of South-Western Crimea as a result of inter-ethnic contacts, according to the analogy of the northeastern Black Sea and the Don region, we can confidently date the lifetime Saltovo- Mayatsky culture (probably the IX c.)

Relations between Byzantium and the Sultanate of Iconium in the reign of Michael VIII Palaeologus (1259-1282)

Взаимоотношения Византии и Иконийского султаната в правление Михаила VIII Палеолога (1259-1282 гг.)

Author(s): K.V. Belyiy / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: History; diplomatics; Byzantium; the Sultanate of Iconium

his article is devoted to the problem of relationship of the Byzantine Empire and the Sultanate of Iconium in the reign of Michael VIII (1259-1282). The author concludes that this problem is not rightfully disregarded in the historiography, since the policy in relation to Iconium, conducted by Michael VIII, had a great influence on the fate of the Byzantine Asia Minor.

Russian historiography XVIII-XX centuries of Russian-Byzantine relations IX-X centuries

Российская историография XVIII–начала XX вв. о русско-византийских отношениях IX–X вв.

Author(s): A.A. Knyazkov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: History; diplomatics; Byzantium; Ancient Russia

Given article gives a historiographic overview of studying of Rus-Byzantine relations of IX-X century by the Russian researchers. This was the phase of the relations when they had started and came a long way from military conflicts to the developed diplomatic system. Overview is devoted to the time from XVIII to the early XX century. In the colclusion, author sums up that in spite of all the big progress in historical analysis of Rus-Byzantine relations, many questions which follow from the reading all the resources in comparison remained unsolved. Consistent conception of the foreign policy of both states was also not formed.

To a question of possibility of emission of gold in the Byzantine Cherson

К вопросу о возможности эмиссии золота в византийском Херсоне

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: Archaeology; History; numismatics; Byzantium; Cherson

The numismatics of Cherson is studied already more than two centuries. However and now we don't know, from what metals in this city issued money. It is clear that speech doesn't go about copper and lead. A problem that by this time researchers describe gold and silver coins as believe, let out in it a city. In article contain the analysis of the existing points of view concerning their definition and our hypothesis about possibility of release of a gold coin in Cherson is proved.

To a question about the treatment of foreign coins in the Crimea in XVI-XIX centuries

К вопросу об обращении иностранной монеты в Крыму в XVI–XIX вв.

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3/2011

Keywords: Archaeology; History; numismatics; Crimea; foreign coins

Coinage of medieval Crimea has been studied for a more than two centuries. By this time numismatists have passed already from simple revealing of versions local coins to research of structure of monetary circulation on peninsula. However, according to written sources, in its territory used not only local but also imported coins: the European and Turkish. But until now, foreign money found in the Crimea, and not the numismatic research. In this article we are entering a scientific description of the three treasures of Turkish and European gold and silver, which were found in our peninsula over the past 50 years and have not been published in a timely manner.

Great Russian antiquity, dedicated

Великому российском антиковеду посвящается

Author(s): Mikhail M. Choref / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

The time and circumstances of the death of the Crimean Scythia: Alans, 224 (?)

О времени и обстоятельства гибели Крымской Скифии: аланы, 224 г. (?)

Author(s): Sergey V. Ushakov,Valentin V. Doroshko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Crimea; the Scythians; Alans

The paper analyzes the archaeological and numismatic material, since the death of late Scythians in the Crimea. They suggest that these events may be related to the invasion troops of the Alans in the Crimea at the end of the first quarter of the III. AC (224). At the same time, the death is directly dependent on the internal instability of the very late Scythia, where there was no state and only start to develop new ethnosocial community.

Terracotta from Ayvowoe

Терракоты из Айвового

Author(s): Mikhail Ya. Choref / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Ayvowoe; Aphrodite; the barbarians; Rome; terracotta

Two female terracotta figurines were found in 1971 near the village Ayvowoe . The fact that they've found evidence of cultural and economic ties between the barbarous peoples of Southwest Taurica late Roman world. Judging from the fragments of pottery found with terracotta tiles, they can date the I-III centuries BC.

Funeral-memorial complex early medieval nomads of the Eastern Azov (on materials of excavations of burial grounds Lebedi IV and Lebedi VIII in 1980)

Погребально-поминальные комплексы раннесредневековых кочевников из Восточного Приазовья (по материалам раскопок могильников Лебеди IV и Лебеди VIII в 1980 г.)

Author(s): V.A Skarbovenko,N.A. Lifanov / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Post-Hunnic era; Khazar Khanate; nomads; funeral-memorial rites; grave goods

In this article the archeologic materials of early Middle Ages nomads from mound burial cemetries Lebedy IV and Lebedy VIII (the territory of Krasnodar area) are presented. Among them the funeral complexes of post-Hunnic (second half VI century) and early-Khazar (the middle – second half VII century) periods are revealed.

The emergence of the provinces of the Institute on the territory of ancient Armenian states (according to ancient sources)

Возникновение института губерний на территории Древнеармянского государства (согласно античным источникам)

Author(s): A.Zh. Arutyunyan / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Ancient Armenia; village communities; provinces; regions (districts); pitiashkhity

We present how Tigran II the Great tried to reorganize the province system in further divisions. It was found that the final province was created by Tiridate the I-st, so that before its collapse the Armenian state was divided into 190–195 districts, 15 provinces and 4 pitiashkhity.

Celtic substrate of Crimean Gothia

Кельтский субстрат Крымской Готии

Author(s): M.Yu. Rahno / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: the Crimea; the Celts; the Crimean Goths; the Crimean Gothic language; relict languages; Busbecq; etymology; loanwords; substratum

The archaeological, linguistic, and cultural heritage of the Celtic nations in Ukraine is the object of the attentions of the scientists at the present time. The search of the traces of the Celts in the south of Ukraine, in the Crimea, in the view of the ethnocultural interaction between the Celts and the Germans, requires to take up the Crimean Gothic materials. Some words from the Crimean Gothic language, the separate personal names and place-names of the Crimean Gothia are of Celtic origin. The latest etymological solutions in this sphere are generalized in this article, some Celtic etymologies for the Crimean Gothic linguistic relics are proposed too.

To a question of formation of the Christian community in late antique Chersonese

К вопросу о формировании христианской общины в позднеантичном Херсонесе

Author(s): Mihail Fomin / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Chersonesos; Cherson; Christianization

The issue of emergence and claiming of Christianity in the Chersonese – Cherson remain controversial question for more than a hundred years. Analyzing of all known sources allows recovering a process of development of the Church in the Chersonese. The first exposure with Christianity took place in the first centuries A.D. Christian community was formed at the end of III - IV centuries A.D. But the final victory of Christianity occurred in the 80-s years of IV centuries.

Necropolises of medieval Сherson as a source on stories of destruction of the city at the beginning of the XI century

Некрополи средневекового Херсона как источник по истории разрушения города в начале XI века

Author(s): V.V. Khapaev / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Cherson; Basilica; earthquake; necropolis

The article is devoted to the evidence base expansion of the hypothesis about the earthquake as the cause of Byzantine Cherson destruction at the beginning of XI century. Publication of suburb and city necropolis excavations results is involved for the first time as a source of information about this event. The author comes to conclusion, that the appearance of cemeteries with mass burial places of corpses under narthexes of destroyed basilicas «On the hill» and «1932 year» due to sanitary cleaning of the city after the catastrophe. In the early graves under «Basilica of 1935 year» ruins skeletons with traces of fused fractures were found. Perhaps they belong to Cherson residents, who were injured, but survived in the catastrophe of the beginning of XI century.

Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis by Matthias Miechovita as a Source for the Historical Ethnography of the Northern Black Sea Region

«Трактат о двух Сарматиях» Мацея Меховского как источник по исторической этнографии Северного Причерноморья

Author(s): K.Ju Rahno / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: History; historiography; ethnology; Matthias Miechovita; the Alans; the Goths; the Khazarians; the Circassians; the Ruthenians; Cossacks, the Crimea; Caucasus; Ukraine; Poland

Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis by Matthias Miechovita as a Source for the Historical Ethnography of the Northern Black Sea Region. In the sixteenth century the work of Matthias Miechovita, Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis, Asiana et Europiana, et de contends in eis, printed for the first time in Krakow in 1517, was very well known and had many editions. It consists a lot of information on the contemporary non-Tatar population of steppes of the Northern Black Sea region, including the Alans, the Goths, the Khazarians, the Circassians, and the Ruthenians. The problem of the origin of Ukrainian Cossacks could not be analyzed without the facts from the work of this Polish scientist as well

Problems search of ancient monuments of the Crimea travelers in first half of the XIX century

Проблемы поиска древних памятников Крыма путешественниками первой половины XIX века

Author(s): T.Yu. Prohorova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: History; Crimea; travelers

Problems which Russian and foreign travelers faced, visiting Crimea in first half XIX century, are studied in this article. In travelling notes, diaries, memoirs and proceedings of these people is reflected big (and nowadays irreplaceable) layer of information on the ancient and medieval past of peninsula, its architectural and archaeological monuments. Travel history studying of these authors is an actual historiographic problem. The author comes to a conclusion that further studying of XIX century first half traveler’s notes, including little-known, will allow enriching our knowledge of the historical past of peninsula, both new time, antiquity and of the Middle Ages

Crimean ancient times in the works of lesser-known travelers of the first half of the XIX century. (for example, travel writing G. de Sen-Sover)

Крымские древности в произведениях малоизвестных путешественников первой половины XIX в. (на примере путевых заметок Ж. де Сен-Совера)

Author(s): T.Yu. Prohorova / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Crimea; traveler; medieval monuments

A new source of the Crimean history is studied in this article – travelling notes of French diplomat G. de Sen-Sover published in Paris in 1837. The author comes to a conclusion that information of these notes can be an important information source of ancient and medieval history of peninsula thanks to the mention of the ancient and medieval monuments subsequently plundered or destroyed

Once again about the Gothic metropolitanate

Еще раз о Готской митрополии

Author(s): Yuri Yu. Shevchenko / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Gothia; baptism, Kubrat; Pereshchepina treasure

The article is devoted to the early history of the Christian Gothia. As a result of bringing materials church archeology managed not only to trace the territories under the control of bishops and Metropolitan Gothia, but also shed new light on questions of history state of Kubrat.

The story of the "geography" or about one incident Crimean Christian place names

История с «Географией», или об одном казусе крымской христианской топонимики

Author(s): N.V. Dneprovskiy / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: Crimea; Christian toponymy; cave church; αγιογράφος

In 1773 Russian navigator I. Baturin, while mapping the Akhtiar (Sevastopol) harbour, have noted on his map a cave church with a strange dedication. It seemed to him that local inhabitants called it «The Geography» church («Geographia» in Russian). In Soviet, atheistic, period well-known archaeologist N.I.Repnikov supposed that this church have been really consecrated in the name of St. Eugraphius («Evgraphij» in Russian spelling), and his opinion is widespread till nowadays among the scholars. But, unluckily, the fact is that Greek Orthodox Church has not such a saint as St. Eugraphius, but only St. Eugraphos (whose name in Russian is pronounced as «Evgraph»). Our assumption is that Russian sailor have written the name exactly according to his understanding, because he was a sailor and a navigator. So, the geography was the most important thing for him, meanwhile by no means could he know the original word which the Crimean Greeks told him. That is, up to present time the icon-painter in Greece is called « αγιογράφος», or, plural, «αγιογραφία». But this word have not been included into Greek-Russian vocabularies of that time. And it sounds almost exactly as the Russian word «Geographia» which was well-known to the sailor. The cave church have been devastated for a long time, but the remains of mural paintings were still decorating its walls. So, the name which Baturin was told («αγιογραφία») was not the real consecration of the church (which have been long-forgotten already). It was only reflecting the reminiscences about the icon-painters which have decorated the church and, probably, have been living in the nearby cave cells. Mr. Kostas Asimis, the representative of Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon (Mount Athos), shares our opinion