The rural area of the Greek colony Akra (Kerch district, Ukraine) the settlement of Zavetnoe 5. Seasons 2009-2010
Journal: Homo Politicus (Academy of Humanities and Economics in Lodz)
Year: 2012

Archaeological excavation in the chora of Akra, a Greek colony situated to the south of Pantikapaion and Nymphaion in the Kerch peninsula, was launched in the 1980s by staff from the Kerch Museum. Since 2002, the Ukrainian-Russian Expedition of Donetsk University and the State Hermitage in St Petersburg have operated on the Zavetnoe 5 site, most probably the main part of this chora, which dates from the late 6th to the first decades of the 3rd century BC. During the years 2009 and 2010, academic