Gorgippia

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Gorgippia

an ancient city on the eastern shore of the Black Sea (modern Anapa). Gorgippia arose on the site of an earlier Sind settlement (Sind Harbor) with the appearance of Greek colonizers in the sixth-fifth centuries B.C. The city became part of the kingdom of the Bosporus and was renamed Gorgippia in honor of Gorgipp, a ruler of the city from the Spartocid dynasty. Gorgippia was a major trade and artisan center and an important military stronghold on the Bosporus. In the second and third centuries there was a large religious union of shipowners (naukler) in Gorgippia. This was the period of Gorgippia’s greatest prosperity. In the fourth century it fell into decline in connection with the general crisis of the slave-owning system.

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No references found			Of particular interest are the enamelled bronze objects found in the Bosporan kingdom: a bronze open-cast plaque with pelt-shaped decoration found in Kerch, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Henry 1933: 121, figure 31), and an incense-burner from Gorgippia, with motifs that were wide-spread in the Celtic art of the previous period (Lindenschmit 1870: Taf. The celts in the north Pontic area: a reassessment by Treister, Michail Ju. / Antiquity			Goremykin, Ivan Longinovich Goren, Charles Goren, Charles H Goren, Charles Henry Gorenko, Anna Andreyevna gorets Goretskii, Maksim Goretskii, Maksim Ivanovich Gorey Gorey, Edward Gorgan Gorgan Plain Gorgany Gorgas, Josiah Gorgas, William Gorgas, William Crawford gorge gorge cornice gorge wind gorgerin Gorges State Park Gorges, Sir Ferdinando Gorgey, Arthur Görgey, Arthur Gorgias Gorgippia Gorgon Gorgonacea Gorgonaria gorgoneion gorgonin Gorgonocephalidae Gorgons Gori Gori Cotton Combine Goriachegorsk Goriachevodskii Goriachii Kliuch Goriachinsk Goriachkin, Vasilii Goriachkin, Vasilii Prokhorovich Goriaev, Vitalii Goriaev, Vitalii Nikolaevich Gorianinov, Pavel Gorianinov, Pavel Fedorovich Gorilla gorilla arm Gorilla Glass Gorilla Naming Ceremony Gorimir Chernyi Gorimir Gorimirovich Chernyi			gorgers gorgers gorges gorges gorges gorges Gorges State Park Gorges, Sir Ferdinando gorget gorget Gorget hummer Gorget patch Gorget patch Gorget patches Gorget patches gorgets gorgets Gorgey, Arthur Görgey, Arthur Gorgias Gorgias Gorgias of Leontini Gorgias of Leontini gorging gorging gorging gorging gorging gorgio gorgios Gorgippia Gorgon Gorgon Gorgon Nut Gorgon Plant Gorgon taurinus Gorgonacea Gorgonacea Gorgonaria Gorgonean gorgoneia gorgoneia Gorgoneion Gorgoneion Gorgonia Gorgonia Gorgoniacea gorgonian gorgonian gorgonian coral Gorgonian Grotto gorgonians Gorgonin gorgonize gorgonized gorgonizes gorgonizing Gorgonocephalidae Gorgonocephalus gorgons gorgons

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