23244
Accession Number
33247
Author
Treister, Michail Ju.
Author Affiliation
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow. Acting Scientific Secretary
Title Of Article Chaper
Metalworking of Panticapaion, kingdom of Bosporus Capital
Title Of Journal Book
Kinzoku Hakubutsukan kiyo (Bulletin of the Metals Museum)
Volume
12
Pages
38-58
ISSN
0285-8452
Language Of Text
English
Language Of Summary
English;Japanese
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
The metalworking of Pantikapaion, the capital of the Bosporian State, situated in the territory of Eastern Crimea and Taman Peninsula from the sixth century BC onwards is discussed. The author analyses the remains of metalworkshops, their grouping, the character of production (undifferentiated, ironworking, production of arms and armor, statue casting etc.), summarizes all the finds of casting molds, production waste. The materials are described according to historical periods in the economical and political development context of Bosporus. The publication is supplemented with results of the spectroanalytical study of about 200 bronzes from the excavations of Pantikapaion. -- AATA
Keywords
Metalworking Ancient Pantikapaion site (Crimea, USSR); Metallurgy Ancient Bosporus AATA
pub_id
23244