title: THIRD CENTURY AD BURIAL VAULTS FROM THE CEMETERY OF OPUSHKI
abstract: There was some important event taking place in the Crimea in the third century AD or a little bit earlier that was probably reflected by the appearance of burial vaults of a special design that had not been previously known in Crimea. These vaults comprised an entrance pit and a burial chamber with a short (0.4–0.8 m long) underground corridor (dromos) dug in between them; the funerals in the burial chamber were made on the floor in one tier. Until recently, only a few short-dromos burial vaults
journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik