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The paper is the first in a series of publications of ancient painted pottery from Tauric Chersonesos. It considers materials from K. K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (1888—1907) and R.Ch. Löper (1908—1914) excavation. Rich antiquities collected by K. K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich have not been yet published, except only a few of them. One of the reasons behind this situation is that the artefacts were not tagged due to the untimely death of the researcher. R. Ch. Löper’s painted pottery collection, tagged precisely to concrete archaeological monuments on the territory of the settlement, gives interesting information about its topography and complements our understanding of the dynamics of painted pottery imports to Chersonesos from the late 6th till late 4th century B. C. There are more than 1000 items that have been catalogued and negatives images of the lost artefacts have been found in the archive. Pottery sherds submitted by K. K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich and R. Ch. Löper to the Imperial Archaeological Commission have been studied in the funds of the State Hermitage. Distribution of the finds on territory of the Chersonesos settlement, typology of vessels and depicted themes are analyzed in this paper.

Keywords: Tauric Chersonesos, painted pottery collection, K. K. Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich and R. Ch. Löper’s catalog of collections.

Information about authors:

Irina Vdovichenko (Simferopol, Ukraine). Candidate of historical sciences. Museum of Simferopl's History.
E-mail:  [email protected]

Galina Zhestkova (Sevastopol, Ukraine). National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos.
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