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Abstract

The paper discusses the finds of red- and gray clay pottery and molded lamps at the Polyanka settlement. The first are few (8 whole pieces). Most of the latter (13 specimens) most likely served as incense burners. Almost all of the pottery and up to half of the stucco come from the premises and date back to the 1st century BC. All of them find numerous analogies in various ancient sites of the Bosporus and the Northern Black Sea region. Pottery and partly molded incense burner lamps, along with some other artifacts and archaeological evidence, are a kind of indicator of the residential purpose of a particular room.

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Russian Science Foundation, project No. 23-18-00088.

Aleksandr A. Maslennikov

Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia;

V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, Simferopol, Russia

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