New Rus’ian Finds from Mediaeval Soldaia: For the Question of Contacts between Rus’ and the Taurica in the Fifteenth Century
Journal: Античная древность и средние века
Year: 2025

This article analyzes a bone cross and a round copper icon excavated at the church and churchyard in the suburb of Soldaia and its port area. The cross, published in 2007, was not properly analyzed. Doubtless attribution relates it Rus’ian bone one-sided crosses documented by the excavations of Rus’ian cities of Moscow, Pskov, Suzdal, Tver, Pereyaslavl Ryazansky. The medallion, a rare artefact in Moscow Rus’, was not published before. According to the archaeological contexts and morphology, both