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ODISSOS (Ancient city) UKRAINE
Odessus (Odessos, Strab. vii. p. 319; Scymn. 748; Diod. xix. 73, xx.
112; Appian, Ill. 30; Arrian, Per. p. 24; Anon. Per. p. 13; Ptol. iii. 10. § 8,
viii. 11. § 6; Steph. B. s. v.; Mela, ii. 2. § 5; Plin. iv. 18; Ovid, Trist. i.
9. 37: the reading Odesopolis, Scyl. p. 29, is simply a corruption for Odgsos
polis, for the name was written both with the single and the double o; the latter
form occurs on the autonomous coins, the former on those of the Empire: Odussos,
Hierocl.; Procop. de Aed. iv. 11; Odissos, Amm. Marc. xxii. 8. § 43), a town on
the W. coast of the Euxine, at the mouth of the river Panysus, 24 M. P. (Anton.
Itin.), or 34 M. P. (Peut. Tab.), from Dionysopolis, and 360 stadia from tie E.
termination of Haemus (Emineh Burnu). Odessus was founded by the Milesians (Strab.
l. c.; Plin. l. c.), if credit may be given to the author of the poem which goes
under the name of Scymnus (l. c.), as early as the reign of Astyages, or B.C.
594-560. (Clinton, F. H.; Raoul-Rochette, Col. Gr. vol. iii. p. 786.) From the
inscriptions in Bockh (Inscr. Nos. 2056, a, b, c), it would seem to have been
under a democratic form of government, and to have presided over the union of
five Greek cities on this coast, consisting of Odessus, Tomi, Callatis, Mesambria,
and Apollonia. When the Bulgarians swept over the Danubian provinces in A.D. 679
they are found occupying Varna (Barna, Theophan. p. 298; Niceph. p. 23; Cedren.
vol. i. p. 440), which is described as being near Odessus. (St. Martin, ap. Le
Beau, Bas Empire, vol. xi. p. 447; Schafarik, Slav. Alt. vol. ii. p. 217.) The
autonomous coins of Odessus exhibit types referring to the worship of Serapis,
the god imported by Ptolemy into Alexandreia, from the shores of Pontus. The series
of imperial coins ranges from Trajan to Salonina, the wife of Gallienus. (Eckhel,
vol. ii. p. 36; Rasche, vol. iii. pt. 2. p. 51; Mionnet, Descr. des Med. vol.
i. p. 395, Suppl. vol. ii. p. 350.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ANDREEVKA (Village) UKRAINE
The site, on a small hill 1.5 km SW of the modern village of Andreevka
and 11 km W of Kerch, was first inhabited in the Bronze Age. Excavations have
uncovered the remains of modest dwellings and grain pits from a Greek or Hellenized
agricultural settlement of the 6th-4th c. B.C. The earliest homes had walls of
poorly baked brick or adobe resting on a stone foundation or socle, and the floor
of one house was slightly sunk into the ground. In the 4th c. B.C. these separated
and isolated homes gave way to the large stone farmstead of a Bosporan Greek consisting
of a complex of storage rooms, cattle stalls, and living quarters built around
a large interior court. The farinstead complex itself covered an area of ca. 1000
sq. m, and small detached structures and grain pits belonging to the farinstead
were found elsewhere on the hill. The farmstead was abandoned in the 3d c. B.C.
T. S. Noonan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
BEREZAN (Settlement) UKRAINE
The first Greek colony in the N Black Sea, it is on an island in the
Dnieper-S. Bug estuary. The earliest Greek pottery dates from ca. mid 7th c. B.C.
The city's most prosperous period dates from the 6th-5th c. B.C. and
is represented by traces of houses, 6th c. pottery, and black-glazed bowls of
the 6th-5th c. from Rhodes and Attica; also terracottas (seated goddesses or grotesques),
and 5th c. coins from Olbia. There is also a necropolis. Recent excavations suggest
that the site existed until the 4th c. B.C. and was inhabited again in the early
centuries A.D. when various finds indicate that a sanctuary of Achilles may have
existed here. The Hermitage and Odessa Museums contain material from this site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. S. Ztetyllo, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
CHAIKA (Ancient city) UKRAINE
Site 7 km W of Eupatoria, probably founded by Chersonesus in the 4th
c. B.C. The walls surrounding the city, which had towers and date from the 4th-3d
c. B.C., are partly preserved. A few traces of streets and houses can be seen.
The city was destroyed in the 2d c. B.C. by the Scythians, who set up a trading
center on the same site that lasted until the first centuries A.D. The famous
bronze statuette of an Amazon on horseback, done in the style of Lysippos, was
found here. The Hermitage and Eupatoria Museums contain material from this site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. S. Ztetyllo, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
NEAPOLIS (Ancient city) UKRAINE
The chief city of the Scythians from the 3d c. B.C., situated E of
modern Simferopol (Strab. 7.4.7). It ceased to exist in the 3d c. A.D. when the
Crimea was overrun by Sarmatians, Alans, and Goths.
Although the capital of the Scythian state in the Crimea, there is
evidence in the remains of considerable Greek influence, and graffiti suggest
the possibility of a permanent Greek settlement in the city. Covering an area
of ca. 20 ha, the city was surrounded in the 3d c. B.C. with stone walls bonded
with mortar. The walls are 2.5 m thick, later reinforced to a thickness of 11-12
m in some places, and have been preserved to a height of ca. 2.7 m. The main gate,
in the middle of the S wall, was protected on either side by towers. There were
two other gates. Architectural remains within the city include a large stone structure
opposite the main gate with two porticos, columns with Doric capitals, and a tiled
roof; a rich dwelling of the 3d-2d c. with a semi-cellar, tiled roof, and plastered
and painted walls; Hellenistic dwellings with rooms opening onto paved courtyards.
The city's funerary architecture was monumental. Most noteworthy is
a mausoleum built on a rectangular plan (8.65 x 8.10 m). Its walls, which consisted
of slabs of stone, have been preserved up to 3 m. Inside were 72 richly furnished
tombs, probably belonging to dynastic kings buried between the 2d c. B.C. and
the 2d c. A.D. A wooden sarcophagus with feet carved in the shape of fantastic
animals is especially remarkable. The sides of the sarcophagus are decorated with
garlands, acanthus leaves, flowers, and pine cones. Gold rings, earrings, etc.,
and Scythian arms have been found here. The necropolis has also been excavated,
on the outskirts of the city. Cut in the rock, the tombs are small square chambers
containing niches. On the walls are painted friezes depicting scenes of everyday
Scythian life (leaving for the hunt; a Scythian drawing his bow; also houses and
huts). Some Greek inscriptions have been uncovered (including one mentioning King
Skylurus) and a relief from the 3d c. B.C. showing Palakos on horseback. The Simferopol
Museum and the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, contain material from the site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. S. Ztetyllo, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
POPOVKA (Village) UKRAINE
This coastal settlement, 28 km NW of Eupatoria near the village of
Popovka, was founded in the late 4th c. B.C. by Chersonesus. It was seized by
the Scythians in the mid 2d c. B.C. and ceased to exist in the late 1st c. A.D.
Thus far no remains of fortifications from the Greek period have been
uncovered. In the central part of the site is a round Scythian fortress-citadel
built in the 2d c. B.C. and consisting of a thick embankment and deep ditch with
an external facing of up to 18 rows of rough stone. A stone wall, now destroyed,
stood atop the rampart. These fortifications enclosed an area of ca. 130 by 45
m, which was smaller than the original Greek settlement. By the 1st c. A.D., the
settlement had spread outside the defensive system and had even extended beyond
the boundary of the earlier Greek area. The chief monumental remains excavated
are numerous dwellings and horrea; these are rectangular and built of stone. A
number of stone walls and palisades connected and delineated the various buildings
and helped to enclose several flagstone courtyards. The remains of a Scythian
iurta (nomadic tent) from the 1st c. A.D. were found at one spot outside the fortress.
Two crude stelai uncovered in the NW part of the site, outside the walls, suggest
the presence of a Scythian cemetery during the last period of the settlement's
history.
T. S. Noonan, ed.
This text is from: The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites,
Princeton University Press 1976. Cited Nov 2002 from
Perseus Project URL below, which contains bibliography & interesting hyperlinks.
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