Hand-formed ceramics from the settlement on the upper plateau of Mt Opuk (Excavations 2013)
The authors analyze hand-formed ceramics from the building revealed at the excavation-site A1 of the ancient settlement and in the rock fall near the Northern tower of the citadel on the upper plateau of Mt Opuk. Despite the small amount of the material, it broadens the notion of the ceramic complex of the semi-barbarian settlements of the Bosporan kingdom in the early centuries AD. The presence of various groups of origin in its composition testifies to the diversity of network links and, possibly, the ethnic heterogeneity of the city’s population, in the culture of which both Greco-Roman and barbarian elements were intertwined.