title: Kurgan “Hospital” in Kerch (preliminary report)
abstract: This study is devoted to the first publication of the materials of the burial mound «Hospital», a unique monument of the ancient funeral architecture of the elite of the Bosporan society.The hospital barrow is the largest in the chain of mounds departing from the Yuz-Obe ridge.The monument included a monumental crypt with a rectangular chamber with concave overlap long dromos, covered from the inside with a double-layered plaster, on which later drawings with battle scenes were opened, but origi