New Finds of Figurative Vessels of the Roman Period from the Vicinity of Chersonesos
Zhuravlev Denis V., Sviridov Alexey N., Yazikov Sergey V.
The article is dedicated to the study of two red slip vessels discovered during the construction works on the Tavrida highway in Crimea – a figurative vessel in the form of a bull and a fragmented patera with a relief gorgoneion in the centre of the bottom. Complete analogies to the first vessel, dated to the last quarter of the first century AD and made in an unidentified centre in Asia Minor, were never found, despite a significant number of morphologically similar smaller vessels dating back to Hellenistic times. The fragmented Knidian patera is easily restored thanks to a direct parallel – a find from the necropolis ‘Sovkhoz No. 10’, and dates back to the first half of the second century AD.
Keywords: Юго-Западный Крым, краснолаковая керамика, фигурные сосуды, римское время