Defensive Walls of Bosporos in the Age of Justinian
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2023

Procopius of Caesarea’s account that Emperor Justinian I, having found the fortress walls of the capital of the Bosporan Kingdom destroyed, strengthened them, is of fundamental importance for the understanding of the limits of this city in the Early Byzantine Period. For ages, the researchers have been discussing the spatial organization of the city in question in the sixth century. Some of them have inferred that Early Byzantine Bosporos was reduced to a small town in the area of the ancient po