Novensia: Studia i Materiały (15.2004)

240


ered (fig. 4). It was 10 m wide at the top and 3 m deep, with a gentle slope to the
west and steep one to the east (fig. 5). The wall also seems to have been con-
structed in a different way than it was assumed: the outer facing is cut into a
0.80 m wide and 0.60 m deep canal carved in the bedrock (fig. 6). The wall is
filled with ashlars. Small stones, which used to fill in the wall, are, unfortunate-
ly, not in situ. As a result of using this part of the wall as a sui generis quarry in
the 1st century AD, and the pressure of the so-called Turkish wall from the east,
the filling was shifted (fig. 7). The finds discovered in that place include both
Hellenistic and even Goths’ artefacts.
We hope that further archaeological excavations in the eastern part of the
town will bring about better knowledge of the Hellenistic fortifications of Tanais.

Notes

1 T. Scholl (with contributions by K. Misiewicz), Tanais 1996 — wykopaliska nekropoli za-
chodniej — pierwszy sezon badań, Światowi141 -A, 1998, 190-193; T. Arseniewa, T. Scholl, Tanais.
Na kresach cywilizacji antycznej, Archeologia Żywa 10, 1999, 23-25; T. Arseniewa, T. Scholl,