Pages: 415-423 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp244415423

Flour milling was an essential activity in Tanais residents` households in 2nd—3rd  centuries AD. In the quarter of the homesteads studied for the moment, a special type of room for grain milling can be distinguished. They represent semi-basement or ground floor rooms, mostly opening into the yard, with raised corner platforms made of stone and Olynthus milling stones installed into them in antiquity (types I3//II5 after R. Frankel). In the nearest corner in such rooms there was a grain drying kiln (used also for making flatbread). These rooms were located next to the southern border of the manors, with doors opening towards north, west or east.

Keywords: the Northern Coast of the Black Sea, Kara Dag, agriculture of the Bosporan Kingdom, Tanais urban manors, subsidiary economy, Olynthus milling stones, raised corner platforms

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Ivan Prokofev (Moscow, Russian Federation). Lomonosov Moscow State University. Lomonosov Ave., 27, building 4, Moscow, 119192, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-0046-7925