In the first article, Joanna Martin provides an in-depth look at Southern Russian antiquities in the Louvre. He presents elements of historiography on the subject and includes two general maps of the Bosporus, of good quality and in colour. In a short introduction, Burgunder cites the main objectives and interests of this publication: to gather new contributions on the results of archaeological surveys in important sites of the Bosporan kingdom in the Crimea, on the one hand, and on recent explorations of museum collections and scientific archives, on the other hand.
These ten French contributions gathered by the editor, Pascal Burgunder, result from a collaboration between the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Historical Institute of Material Culture of Saint-Petersburg (Cultural Scientific Academy of Russia).
