MT. MAISKAIA
Bosporus.
Greek site on a
small hill near Phanagoria, dating to the 4th-3d c. It
contains foundations of two 4th-3d c. buildings, the one
best preserved being a monument in antis, probably a
temple. Both monuments were destroyed by fire in the
2d c. B.C. Not far from the temple was found a favissa
containing a great number of terracotta half-figure ex-votos of Demeter, Aphrodite, and Artemis from the late
6th-3d c. as well as several dozen coins. The Pushkin
Museum, Moscow, contains material from the site.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
I. D. Marchenko, “K voprosu o kul'takh
aziiatskogo Bospora,”
VDI (1960) 2.101-7; id., “Novye
dannye ob antichnom sviatilishche vblizi Fanagorii,” in
50 let Gosudarstvennogo muzeia izobrazitil'nykh iskusstv
im. A. S. Pushkina: Sbornik statei (1962) 121-33; id.,
“Nekotorye itogi raskopok na Maiskoi gore,”
KSIA 95
(1963) 86-90; I. B. Brašinskij, “Recherches soviétiques sur les monuments antiques des régions de la Mer Noire,”
Eirene 7 (1968) 109.
M. L. BERNHARD & Z. SZTETYŁŁO
