title: Late Roman Pontic Burnished Ware with incised decoration   from Bosporos and Chersonesos
abstract: The paper describes Late Roman and Early Byzantine decorated fine ware vessels and fragments found on both sides of the Kerch Strait (city of Kytaia, Džurg-Oba necropolis and fortlet Il’ičevskoe), and in Chersonesos. The finds represent the recently identified group of fine ceramics called Late Roman Pontic Burnished Ware. They are characterized by very re fined, pale pinkish - light brownish clay containing some very fine flakes of mica and single lumps of lime of various sizes. The inside surf