On the Origin of the Early Christian Paintings in Chersonesos Tombs
Journal: Vestnik drevnei istorii
Year: 2021

The decorative programs of eleven painted tombs of Chersonesos (south-west Crimea), which include mainly floral-plant motifs, images of birds, imitation marble facings and in several tombs also a Christogram and a human figure, correspond to the iconography of early Christian funerary paintings of the Late Roman Empire. They date back to the last quarter of fourth century or the beginning of the fifth century AD. The article revises the traditional concept of the Syro-Palestinian origins of Cher