RAEVSKOE
Kuban.
A fortified military settlement ca. 20 km SE of Anapa, founded in the mid or
late 4th c. B.C. to protect the E border of the Bosporan
state. The main defenses consist of an embankment in
the shape of a parallelogram which encloses an area of
ca. 4 ha. In the late 1st c. B.C. or early 1st c. A.D., a stone
wall was built to strengthen the fortifications. The main
monument uncovered by intermittent excavations begun
in 1954 was a large stone building of the Hellenistic era
for public use. The building (ca. 700 sq. m) consisted
of several rectangular rooms and passageways along with
an attached peristyle courtyard. The finds suggest close
ties with Gorgippia and the growth of agriculture and
handicrafts during the Roman era. Although life at the
settlement ceased in the late 4th c., the site was inhabited
again during the mediaeval period.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. D. Blavatskii, “Issledovaniia Raevskogo gorodishcha v 1954 godu,”
KSIIMK 77 (1959) 42-50; N. A. Onaiko, “Raskopki Raevskogo gorodishcha
1955-1956 godakh,”
KSIIMK 77 (1959) 51-61; id., “O
raskopkakh Raevskogo gorodishcha,”
KSIA 103 (1965)
125-30; id., “Ellinisticheskoe zdanie Raevskogo gorodishcha i ego mesto v arkhitekture Bospora,”
SovArkh (1967) 2.155-68.
T. S. NOONAN
