Despite many years of research at the site, the
Roman fort at Cape Aj-Todor near Yalta remains relatively
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 Balaklava-
Kadykovka. 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....
Karasiewicz-Szczypiorski, Radosław; Mamuladze, Shota; Aslanischvili, Lasha; Daszkiewicz, Małgorzata(Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018)
The article collects the modest information on the use (and
possible production) of ceramic building material by the Roman army in
Colchis, using it as a backdrop for presenting the exceptional richness, in
quantity as much as diversity, of finds from Gonio/Apsaros. They are made
even more exceptional by the signatures found on these products. The article
presents documented examples of stamps on bricks, roof tiles and ceramic
pipes from the fort and links them with construction project of specific Roman
army units in the Cappadocia province. The results of laboratory tests
conducted on samples of ceramic products and raw clay from Gonio,
presented in Part 2, are an important element of the presented analysis.
Based on these results, it has been possible to distinguish two reference
groups for the production of which clay from near the fort was used.
However, it has not been possible to indicate the specific deposits of such
raw material used by the Roman army....