Panskoye I
Journal: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics
Year: 2017

Panskoye I is one of the most prominent and best-studied settlements in the rural territory of Chersonesus on the Tarkhankut Peninsula (north-western Crimea). Founded in the late 5th century <sc>bce</sc> as a fortified outpost (<italic>tetrapyrgia</italic>) protecting the south-eastern frontiers of Olbian territory, around 360 <sc>bce</sc> it was subjugated to Tauric Chersonesus, a close relationship which it maintained until the settlement’s catastrophic destruction around 270 <sc>bce</sc>. In