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Greek city 50 km S of Kerch, founded in the 6th c. B.C. by Greek colonists
from Miletos (Hekataios 1.164; Strab. 11.2.5).
The city is situated on the SW slope of Mt. Opuk along the coast of
the Black Sea, where there was a Cimmerian settlement before the arrival of the
Greeks. Traces of houses, rectangular in plan, have been found dating from the
6th-5th c. B.C. Ionian ware and amphorae from Chios were found inside them, together
with local hand-thrown wares. In the 4th c. B.C. the city was ringed with fortifications
and became an important fortress in the defense system of the Bosporan kingdom
against the Scythians. The city walls are 2.5 m thick, those of the acropolis,
3.5 m. The city reached its height in the 1st-2d c. A.D. when the walls were enlarged
and the houses built of stone. Toward the end of the 3d c. A.D. the city was destroyed
by fire. The Kerch Museum contains material from the site.
M. L. Bernhard & Z. Sztetyllo, 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.
Cimmericum (Kimmerikon, Scymn. Frag. xci; Anon. Peripl. 5), a town
of the Cimmerian Bosporus situated near the mountain of the same name (Kimmerion,
Strab. vii. p. 309: Aghirmisch Daghi, or Opouk) rising in the E. portion of the
S. coast of the peninsula of Kertsch. (Koler, Meme. de l'Acad. de St. Petersburg,
vol. ix. p. 649.)
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