2024/1(36)

special issue

TOMSKAYA PISANITSA

Research materials

Abolonkova I., Zayatdinov D., Novokreshchenova K., Yudnikova A., Rayko G.

Experience of geomechanical monitoring of Tomskaya Pisanitsa in 2022–2023

Gizey Yu.

Goryaev V.

“Tomskaya Pisanitsa” Museum-Reserve: returning from a “museum cultural” to a “repository of cultural heritage objects”

Kovtun I.

The Lower Tom Rock Art Centre

Moor N., Abolonkova I., Goryaev V., Seletsky M., Onishchenko S.

Preliminary results of studying archaeological context of Tomskaya Pisanitsa

Moskvina E.

History of conservation and museumification of rock art sites
on the Tom River based on records from the State Archive of Kuzbass

Orlova E.

Old Russian settlements and villages of the proposed place of interest “Tom Rock Ar

Sazanova K., Zelenskaya M., Vlasov D.

Methodological approaches to the protection of archaeological sites
of the Tom River region from biological damage

Seletsky M., Sokolov P.

Lithic assemblage from the Pisanaya I site: preliminary results of technical and typological analysis

Sheremetova S.,
Sheremetov R.

Geographical and floristic features
of the Tom River Basin

Publ. 15/03/2024

Archives

UDC 904

Volkov I.

Verifying location of Italian trade station of Copa in the medieval town
of Temryuk (Copario – Lo Coppa) (Part 1)

Abstract. The paper attempts to locate the Genovese trading station of Copa, constantly mentioned in the European written sources of 13^th-14^th cc. Copa was obviously situated at the Azov Sea coast nearby the Kuban river mouth that was indicated under the same name. Medieval portolano-maps approximate location of the main bed of the Kuban river during 13^th-15^th cc. at the contemporary estuary of the Kurka river. This fact negates proposition to locate this site in the modern town of Slavyansk-na-Kubani or at the Kiziltash estuary that was the principal estuary of Kuban river during 17^th-19^th cc. Not far from the Kurchansk estuary only two settlements with the corresponding cultural layers are found, namely Golubitzkaya-1 and Temruk-1. Both settlements had been had situated nearby the Kuban river distributaries flowing into the Azov Sea up to 19^th c.

There is written source of the Russian provenance directly indicating that the fortress of Temryuk (known as castle of Adas as well) was built in Copa. The field collections of pottery on the site of Temryuk-1 by Ya.M. Paromov point to the fact that it was inhabited no later than 13^th c. and was occupied until 18^th c. So, location of Copa on the site of Temruk-1 (45º17’50’’ N, 37º20’08’’ E) is to be finally accepted. The place name of Copario used in “Statute of Caffa. 1449” presumably corresponds to the whole coastal area of the Kuban river delta under control of town of Coppa, but limited by the Akhtarsk estuary from the north.

Key words: Copa, Copario, portolano-maps, “Statute of Caffa. 1449”, the Golden Horde, Genovese trading stations, Temryuk, Golubitzkaya, Kuban river, the Azov Sea, Adas.

Volkov Igor Viktorovich,
PhD in History,
Leading Researcher, D.Likhachev’s Russian
Scientific Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow)

Published: The Heritage Institute Journal, 2015/2

URL: http://nasledie-journal.ru/en/journals/33.html

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Russian Scientific Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
named after D.Likhachev

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Russian Scientific Research
Institute for Cultural
and Natural Heritage
named after D.Likhachev

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