Byzantium and the Crimea in the Context of Imperial Interests in the Northern Black Sea Area: New Finds of Emperor’s Molybdoboulla in Taurica
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2019

The author has discussed the question of Byzantium’s particular interest to the strategically important Crimean region against the background of the seals of Byzantine emperors discovered in Byzantine Taurica. According to the distribution map of these seals, emperors’ correspondence was delivered mostly to the south-western area of the peninsula where the main centre of provincial administration, Cherson, was located. The introduction to the scholarship of two new emperors’ seals previously not