Hypanis. Труды отдела классической археологии ИА РАН

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Сборник научных статей по археологии, истории, эпиграфике и нумизматике Боспора античной эпохи и раннесредневекового периода истории, а также исследований памятников скифской культуры.В сборнике публикуются материалы работ, выполненных сотрудниками отделов классической и скифо-сарматской археологии ИА РАН по теме «Причерноморская и Центральноазиатская периферия античного мира и кочевнические сообщества Евразии: на перекрестке культур и цивилизаций» (номер ЕГИСУ НИОКТР 122011200269-4).УДК 902/904 ББК 63.4The find in question, coming from the tower no. 2 is a unique evidence of a Bosporan mercenary's salary during the second half of the first century BC. It can be studied together with a group of Bosporan treasures from various military settlements on the chora, which demonstrate the use of higher value bronze coins minted under Mithridates VI and Pharnaces II in Bosporan military salaries in the third quarter of the first century BC. Anonymous and Panticapaean "Apollo/eagle on lightnings" type obols in such treasures are often found together with civic and Pontic coins of Mithridatic period, as well as with Asander's archon coins. While there were no Asander's coins in the present treasure, they were found separately in this tower, as well as in others. The treasure attests to the fact that the katoikia harrisons were paid in Bosporan and Pontic obols minted in the first century BC until Polemon I. His own mercenaries, on the other hand, were paid in different bronze coins, multiples of the Roman ounce, as attested to by trea sure CH XI, 166.