Pages: 237-239

The reviewed collection of articles highlights the problems connected with study of red-lacquered pottery of the Hellenistic and Roman time in the North Pontic region. The grouping of the articles is thematic. The first block is historiographic and theoretical. It is dedicated to the methods and history of red-lacquered pottery study, and also criticises some modern researchers of the classical Antiquity. Very peculiar are the papers by Western colleagues, whose experience in studying this type of pottery is rather more essential compared to the studies of the Soviet and compatriot scholars. The most significant problem is to distinguish Pontic centres of red-lacquered pottery production. The first solutions of this problem are presented in the work by D.V. Zhuravlev. The next group of articles are publications of materials recovered from closed assemblages. This information is a great support to development of Hellenistic and early Roman time. And the last are publications of the results of the new researches in the field of archaeometrics of the red-lacquered vessels.