Panticapeum (modern Kerch), the major city of…

Panticapeum (modern Kerch), the major city of the Kingdom of the Bosporus situated on Kerch Strait in present-day southern Ukraine, comes under the rule of the Greek Archaeanactid dynasty in 480 BCE.

During the first centuries of the city's existence, imported Greek articles predominate: pottery, terra cotta works, and metal objects, probably from workshops in Rhodes, Corinth, Samos, and Athens.

Local production, imitated from the models, is carried on at the same time.

Athens manufactures a special type of bowl for the city, known as Kerch ware.

Local potters imitate the Hellenistic bowls known as the Gnathia style as well as relief wares—Megarian bowls.

The city mints silver coins from the mid-sixth century BCE.