B.E. Aleksandrov (Moscow) – Slaves and Slaveholders in the Old Babylonian Letters from CUSAS 36 5
M.Yu. Treister (Bonn) – Roman Bronze Pateras of Eggers 154–155 Types in Sarmatia 23
A.V. Belousov, D.V. Zhuravlev, D.A. Kostromichev (Moscow) – A Lamp From Tauric Chersonesos with the Image of Prophet Jonah 61
A.V. Sazanov (Moscow) – C SNP I Amphorae: Problems of Classification and Chronology 90
V.N. Zinko, A.V. Zinko (Simferopol) – Religious Beliefs of Residents of Tyritace in the 4th–6th Centuries 145
V.V. Lebedinskiy (Moscow), N.V. Ginkut (Sevastopol), Y.A. Pronina (Moscow) – Navigation in the Northern Black Sea Region in the Context of Mediterranean Maritime Trade in the Second Half of the 10th – Early 13th Century: Evidence of Shipwrecks 157
I.P. Rushkin (Cambridge, Massachusetts) – An Indication of the Ubiquity of the Hesiodic Myth about Successive Generation of Mortals 182
M.V. Ponikaroskaya (Saint Petersburg) – The Life of Aeschylus Biography: Historical Background and Myth 188
S.S. Demina (Vladimir) – Seneca on the Infl uence of Public Opinion on Consciousness and Behavior 200

Round Table “Ancient Civilizations of Africa”

Sofiane Si-Ammour (Kazan) – The Neolithization in North Africa: Retrospectives from Algeria 207

History of Sholarship

M.S. Chistalev (Nizhny Novgorod) – “Global” Empire in the Post-Colonial Paradigm: an Attempt to Fill the Conceptual Vacuum 226
V.G. Ananiev (Saint Petersburg), M.D. Bukharin (Moscow) – “There is Something Opposite to Marxism in it”: Discussions on the Asiatic Mode of Production in the State Hermitage in the Early 1930s (New Archival Materials) 243
V.Yu. Yurochkin (Simferopol) – “The Russian Project” of 1933 or the Crimean Adventures of E.A. Golomshtok, ‘The Great Schemer” 261