Tomb 1517-1522 at the necropolis of Chersonese Taurian

The article is devoted to the materials of tomb 1517-1522 at the necropolis of Chersonese Taurian discovered in 1903 near the city south gate (Fig. 1). The tomb contained the remains of six cremation burials placed in clay urns (three of them not survived) deposited in a rectangular construction covered with stone slabs. The tomb was plundered in antiquity. The earliest of the preserved vessels is hydria 1518 (the 5 th c. BC), probably, of East Greek provenance (Fig. 2). The burial deposited in it dates within a wide chronological range - the mid 5 th - early 4 th cc. BC. Red-figure krater 1517 made in the early 4 th c. BC was deposited in the tomb not before the second part of the century (Fig. 3). Apparently, to the same period should be attributed burial in urn 1519 (Fig. 2, 6). Thus, the analysis of preserved burial vessels suggests the period from the second part of the 5 th - the third quarter of the 4 th cc. BC as the burial date.