Artifacts from Panticapaeum decorated in the Scythian animal style (on the problem of the Greek-Scythian interactions)

In recent years, for the first time, due to the researches of the Bosporus (Panticapean) archaeological expedition of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, in the initial zone of the Panticapaeum Acropolis some objects decorated in the Scythian animal style (mainly elements of horse equipment) were found. The article represents these products analyzed in the context of the general systematics and chronology of images of the Eastern European Scythian animal style. They all date to within the late 6th -first half of 5th century BC. This is the starting period of intensive Scythian-Greek contact in the Northern Pontic, but specifically for the original site of Panticapaeum such absolute evidence of the interpenetration of Greek and Scythian cultures had not been previously observed in practice. The essence and depth of this interaction should be studied in future.