Contents

Archaeology

 Mikhail Treister (Bonn, Germany). Some Reflections concerning the Phiale with the Images of Heracles and Auge from the Rogozen Treasure 

9

 I.Yu. Schaub (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Unknown lead votive from Olbia 

38

 Mikhail Treister (Bonn, Germany). Whetherthe “Fur Road” existed in Han Period? (the Reflections on the Basis of archaeological Materials)

50

 M.N. Rastegaeva (Saratov, Russia). Ceramic petrography: the history of the method and the current state 

110

Military History and Archaeology

 A.E. Negin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). New finds of medieval mace heads in the Nizhny Novgorod Volga Region 

129

Religious studies

 S.A. Yatsenko (Moscow Russia). The Gods of Sarmatians

143

History

 S.V. Yartsev (Tula, Russia). On the designation of the Central Asian dynastic line of the Bosporan aristocracy

187

Historical Philology

 Abbas Panahi (Rasht, Iran). The role of Henry Martyn, a Christian priest, in confronting Iranian Shiite clerics 

201

Numismatics

 D.V. Andriyevskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russia), M.M. Choref (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). Roman denarii from the Baydar Valley (Crimea) 

211

 D.V. Andriyevskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russia). Imported coins of the “Scythian wars” times in Mountain Crimea 

221

Art history

 M.M. Choref (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia). The attribution of the “Statue of the commander from Tivoli” revisited 

231

 Abbreviations 

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 Submissions 

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