Fish products and their trade in Tauric Chersonesos/Byzantine Cherson: the development of a traditional craft from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

Introduction Tauric Chersonesos was founded in the second half of the 5th c. BC as a colony of Herakleia Pontike, which was a colony of the Greek city of Megara on the southern shores of the Crimea; an outpost of the Classical world. Tauric Chersonesos, was, however, on the western side of the Crimean peninsula, and was established in order to increase Greek influence in this area. The centre of ancient Chersonesos was on the western side of the Qarantine Bay, west of Sevastopol Bay, a major ..