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The article examines the relations between Rome and the Kingdom of Cappadocia on the eve of the First Mithridatic War. Although allied relations between them had existed for several decades, Rome showed little interest in events in this remote region. Only the rise of Pontus and the desire of Mithridates Eupator to strengthen his influence here prompted the Senate to take more active action.

The reverse of the denarii minted in Rome in 63 or 62 BC, with one of the moneyers at the time being L. Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, shows the conqueror of Macedonia L. Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus, as well as Perseus, the captured last king of the Antigonid dynasty, his children and a trophy. Some of these coins have the trophy depicting a shield of the so-called «Macedonian type» with its typical geometric and astral design. In 2012 a well preserved sample of this denarius from the so-called «Mayflower Collection» was sold at an auction.

В последнее десятилетие ряд исследователей предложили пересмотреть устоявшуюся датировку начала правления Тиграна II в Сирии – 83 г. до н.э. Р. Шайеган допустил возможность воцарения армянского царя в 87 г. до н.э., Г. Ассар – 76 г. до н.э., О. Хувер – 74 г. до н.э. Более ранняя датировка не находит подтверждения в источниках и не нашла поддержки в работах других ученых. Предположение О. Хувера о непродолжительном правлении Тиграна II во владениях Селевкидов было принято некоторыми исследователями.

The article publishes a fragment of a stamped Roman mortarius, accidentally found during construction work in Kerch (antique Panticapaeum). Inspite of all the ordinariness of the stamp, this mark is a unique find for the European Bosporus. The recorded analogies of finds in Moesia and other parts of the Northern Black Sea region (Tyra, Olbia, Chersonessus) allow us to conclude, that mortarius is associated with the presence of Roman troops on the Bosporus in the late 2^nd – early 3^rd centuries AD.