ZA RODINA
Kuban.
Fortified Bosporan site 1
km W of the village in the Temriuk area. It was founded
no later than the 4th c. B.C. The most interesting discovery from the excavations, begun in 1970, was the
foundation of a tholos of the 3d-2d c. B.C., encircled
by a paved portico. The tholos, a structure hitherto unknown in the N Black Sea, had Ionic columns while the
colonnade of the portico was evidently Doric. West of the
tholos was a long building of the same period composed
of at least nine adjoining rooms, one of which was apparently an andron used for symposia. The rooms opened
on a paved portico with a richly decorated colonnade.
The tholos and long building may have formed part of a
sanctuary. In the late 2d or early 1st c. B.C. both buildings were partially destroyed and repaired. In the NW
corner of the site arose a rectangular two-story fortified
dwelling with thick walls, probably the residence of
some high official. Most of the structures consisted of
adobe brick walls on stone foundations. In the late 1st
c. B.C. all the buildings perished in a major fire. Soon
after, the site was fortified by a rectangular embankment
and trench. An adobe brick wall probably ran atop the
embankment; the foundations of several towers have
been uncovered. Among the remains from this last
period were a paved street and the foundations of several
homes.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
V. S. Dolgorukov et al., “Raboty
Tamanskoi ekspeditsii,”
Arkheologicheskie Otkrytiia 1970
goda 118-19; N. I. Sokol'skii et al., “Raskopki gorodishcha u poselka ‘Za Rodinu,’”
Arkheologicheskie
Otkrytiia 1971 goda 147-49; id., “Arkhitekturnyi ansambl'na Tamanskom poluostrove,”
Arkheologicheskie Otkrytiia 1972 goda 145-46.
T. S. NOONAN
