Bosporan Kingdom

This article presents a classification of the “royal” coins of the Bosporan Kingdom of the 2^nd century BCE. The obtained numismatic data, combined with an analysis of epigraphic sources, allow for a more precise reconstruction of the rulers’ degrees of kinship and the order of succession, resulting in a proposed dynastic hystory (chronologically covering the period from the late 3^rd century BCE to the end of the reign of Paerisades V).

The article is devoted to the analysis of Roman foreign-policy amicitia in the Bosporan Kingdom in the 1^st century BC. The author shows that amicitia in the Roman understanding represented not so much personal as socio-political and diplomatic ties based on mutual benefit, obligations, and moral categories such as fides, benevolentia, and gratia.

During the study of the necropolis «Tsementnaya Slobodka I» on Ak-Burun Cape in the burial mound 2 the remnants of the funeral feast were found. It was seventeen attic red-figured and black-glazed vessels dated back to the 4th century BC. Fish-plate of Pierides painter and lekythos Talcott class, which were very rare for the Northern Black Sea Region, as well as red-figure pelike and ascos, were among them.

Despite of the existence of closed complexes, which include earlier Black-Glazed pottery, it is considered that with rare exceptions, the time of existence of Black-Glazed products is limited to a short period. If the interval between the production of such vassals and their delivery to the consumer really cannot be significant, the duration of the use of vessels depends on several factors.