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FROM THE NILE TO THE MARE SUEBICUM: CIVILIZATIONS, CONTACTS, CONFRONTATIONS, SITES
M. A. Lebedev (Moscow, Russian Federation)Ptolemids’ Heirs during the Period of Pax Romana? Evolution of the Royal Ideology and Monumental Landscape of the Meroitic State under Natakamani and Amanitore15I. N. Khrapunov (Simferopol, Crimea)A Vault with Stratified Burials from the Fourth Century AD in the Opushki Necropolis33A. I. Aibabin (Simferopol, Crimea)Christianization of the Goths and Alanians in the South-Western Crimea in the 4th—6th Centuries55O. A. Radyush (Moscow, Russian Federation)InvInvasions from the West into the Territory of Eastern Europe at the End of the First Century BC and Second-Third Centuries AD (Archaeological Realities)73V. V. Рriymak (Sumy, Ukraine)A late 1st Millennium BC Barrow near the Village Volkovtsy in the Upper Sula Region (excavations of S. A. Mazaraki)97A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation)On the Dating of a “Military” Burial with a Horse at the Roman Romanovo-Pugachevsky Pond Burial Ground in Northern Sambia109A. P. Gavrilov (Shilovo, Russian Federation)“Silver Age” of the Middle Оka. To the issues of social differentiation and location of the Ryazan-Oka archaeological culture at the intersection of river and land trade routes in the first millennium AD123E. R. Mikhaylova, I. V. Stasyuk (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation)The Udosolovo Stone Burial Ground: Research Results135
IN METAL AND BONE: CONTINUITY AND MUTUAL INFLUENCE
T. N. Smekalova (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), D. A. Kostromichev (Sevastopol, Crimea)Magic of Aurichalcum: from the First Brass Coins of the Time of Mithridates VI to the Roman Military Belts157A. A. Trufanov (Simferopol, Crimea)Burial with a “Germanic” Belt Set from the Late Scythian Ust’-Alma Necropolis (South-West Crimea)181I. O. Gavritukhin (Moscow, Russian Federation)Suvorovo Type Belts (for the study of the Volga-Ural paramilitary elite of the 4 th century AD)201E. A. Khairedinova (Simferopol, Crimea)Gold Neck Jewelry of the 6th—7th Centuries from the South-Western Crimea241A. V. Antipenko (Simferopol, Crimea)Hanging Plates and Appliques of Roman-era Horse Ammunition in the Foothill Crimea in the Light of Cross-cultural Contacts259D. V. Zhuravlev (Moscow, Russian Federation), M. M. Kazanski (Paris, France), A. V. Mastykova (Moscow, Russian Federation)Collection of Roman Time and the Great Migration Period Artefacts from the Eastern Crimea273A. M. Vorontsov, E. V. Stoliarov (Tula, Russian Federation)Plated Temple Rings on Sites of the Upper and Middle Oka River291S. A. Yatsenko (Moscow, Russian Federation)Artistic Bone Wares of the Ancient Kangju and the Neighboring Countries311
PONTUS CERAMICS
I. V. Bruyako, E. Yu. Khmelevskaya (Odessa, Ukraine)Handmade Pottery of Roman Time from the Kartal Hillfort Excavations337E. V. Sukhanov (Moscow, Russian Federation)Pottery Traditions of Barbarian Population from the South-Western Crimea: Some Results of Research (Based on Hand-Made Pottery from Frontovoe 3 Necropolis)353N. Yu. Limberis, I. I. Marchenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation)Grey-Clay Jugs and Mug-Jugs with Looped Handle from Mаeotian Sites of the Krasnodar Group371A. N. Tkachev, A. V. Kondratenko (Krasnodar, Russian Federation)Maeotian Ceramic Tiles of Starokorsunskaya Settlement No. 2385A. V. Smokotina (Simferopol, Crimea)Late Roman and Early Byzantine Ceramic Imports from the Harbor of Pantikapaion399
WORKSHOPS AND MASTERS
I. A. Prokofev (Moscow, Russian Federation)New Data on Flour Milling Complexes in Tanais Urban Manors of the Second—Third Centuries AD415M. I. Zolotarev (†), D. Y. Korobkov (†), S. V. Ushakov (Simferopol, Crimea)A Late Antique Furnace from the Northeastern Part of the “Barracks” of Tauric Chersonese (Excavations in 1998)425O. S. Rumyantseva (Moscow, Russian Federation)Pontil Marks on the Vessels from Frontovoe 3 Necropolis in the South-Western Crimea as a Source for Investigating Glassworkers’ Tools and Technological Traditions449
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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