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Foreword

This volume collects the work of scholars in the UK and Ukraine who are

concerned with the ancient history and archaeology of the north coast of

the Black Sea, embracing both the Scythian and the classical worlds. In

the Ukraine this has been a subject of high priority for some two cen-

turies of intensive research and excavation. A whole wealth of issues and

data has been uncovered and studied — on ‘Great Scythia’, on the Late

Scythian peoples of the lower Dnieper region and Crimea, and also on

the Sarmatians and others besides. Major strides have been taken in the

advance of our knowledge of the classical cities of the region, such as

Tyras, Chersonesus, Kerkinitis, Kalos Limen, and the Bosporan cities,

among others. In all this work pride of place has been held by Olbia, not

only the city itself but also its civic territory and the island of Berezan,

which was in antiquity a peninsula. The study of Olbia has always been

set apart through the outstanding results of its excavations and the splen-

dour of individual ﬁnds there. Unfortunately, for the most part, the

English-speaking reader has been denied systematic contact with this

work for a series of reasons, not least the language barrier, since discov-

eries were published in Russian and Ukrainian. The present volume offers

the opportunity to engage with some of the most pressing current issues

in this ﬁeld.

P . P . TOLOCHKO

Director of the Institute of Archaeology,

National Academy of Sciences,

Kiev, Ukraine

David Braund, S. D. Kryzhitskiy - Classical Olbia and the Scythian World, From the Sixth Century BC to the Second Century AD (2008).pdf