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Roman fort at Cape Aj-Todor (Charax) and its surroundings. A new look at old discoveries

2018, 57

Radosław Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski

0000-0002-6235-9313

Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Centrum Archeologii Śródziemnomorskiej UW

University of Warsaw, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology

Uniwersytet Warszawski, Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.6813

Publication date

17.12.2019

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open access

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CC BY 4.0 Int.

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Humanities

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archeology

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English

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Abstract

Despite many years of research at the site, the Roman fort at Cape Aj-Todor near Yalta remains rela- tively poorly studied. A  better understanding of the discoveries made at the site can be reached by comparing them with the results of the excavations conducted in another fort also located in Crimea – at BalaklavaKadykovka. This text is an attempt at gathering together all the published information about the discoveries made at Cape Aj-Todor. The comparison of the research results from both sites has enabled establishing numerous similarities between them. Both forts functioned simultaneously, and their architectural remains can be qualified to identically dated phases. The final effect of the analysis undertaken by the author is a more complete plan of the fort at Cape Aj-Todor along with its surroundings, processed in a new graphic formula.

Keywords:

Aj-Todor,Charax,Crimea,Roman army,Roman fortifications

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