negatives reports
Ancient city of Chersonesos
 - North area
 - South area
 - West area
 - North-East area
 - South-East area
 - Central area
 - Citadel
 - Harbour area
 - Undetermined area
Necropoleis
 - Northern
 - Western
 - Near Karantinnaya bay
 - Undetermined necropolis
Chora
 - Heraclean peninsula
Environs
 - City Environs
 - Remote Environs
Museum
 - Exhibitions
 - Staff
 - Everyday life
Unidentified
Ancient city of Chersonesos
 - North area
 - South area
 - West area
 - North-East area
 - South-East area
 - Central area
 - Citadel
 - Harbour area
 - Undetermined area
Necropoleis
 - Northern
 - Western
 - Near Karantinnaya bay
 - Undetermined necropolis
Chora
 - Heraclean peninsula
Environs
 - City Environs
 - Remote Environs
Museum
 - Exhibitions
 - Staff
 - Everyday life
Unidentified

Ancient city of Chersonesos


The site of the ancient city of Tauric Chersonesos is located on a large promontory between two bays, Karantinnaya (Russian for Quarantine) and Pesochnaya (Sandy) within the limits of the present-day city of Sevastopol. It covers the area of about 45 hectares. The investigations of the ancient city started in 1827 and continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century, with short intervals. By the early twenty-first century, the excavations have uncovered about one-third of the ancient city: defensive walls and towers, churches and public spaces like theater, water reservoir, the so-called mint, thermae (baths), etc. The most important result of the excavations in the ancient city is the discovery of the city layout according to Hippodamean plan: grid of residential quarters of the same size composed by parallel and perpendicular streets. Although modern division of the ancient city into areas is conventional, it is used in archaeological documents.

The division of the ancient city into the areas is a convention; it is made for better orientation of the visitors (real and virtual) in Chersonesos territory. This zoning is performed according to existing tradition which is mentioned in scholarly and popular literature. At the same time, we should mention that there still is a certain confusion as to the numeration of longitudinal and transverse streets (and even of curtain walls and residential quarters), so we have to follow more or less common system of their designation.  

 

Wall SCHC (north-west wall of the building on the square to the north-east of 1936 quarterWall YU (north-west wall of house 1 in quarter excavated in 1936-1937Wall YA
LOUTERION, fragment, with out-turned rimCistern АAMPHORAE fragments
AMPHORA necks with handles, one made in Heraclea, with englyphic stampLower parts of amphora bodies, with feet intactFragment of red-figured KRATER imaging two female figures holding round artifacts (tympana?)
Fragments of red-figured vesselsShards of CUPS with ring handle (one item is Ionian)Fragments of walls of PITCHERS with red-strip ornament (two shards with picture of vines with bunches of grapes)
Fragments of cooking VESSELS. Fourth and third century BCShards of two FLASKSFragments of cooking VESSELS (pots, lids for pots, handle)
Shards of Ionian KYLIKES with brown-strip ornamentationPITCHER HANDLES - double, with a groove along the handle and brown paint at the upper baseFragments of red-figured vessels
Fragments of red-figured vessels (9)Lower fragments of AMPHORAE with feet (3). Fourth centuryFragments of PITCHERS. Ornamentation made in red colour as strips and garlands


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