Antropomorphic Sculptures as a Source for the Study of Interethnic and Cross-cultural Communi-cations in the Ancient World

Abstract

The author reviews The Bosporan Anthropomorphic Sculptures: Cross-cultural and Interethnic Communications Through Time and Space (Nizhni Novgorod, 2012), by N. V. Moleva, Associate Professor of the Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod. The research is based on a study of over three hundred anthropomorphic monuments on the territory of Bosporus, an ancient state that was founded along the Kerch Strait on the northern Black Sea coast.

Keywords

• bosporus
• archaeology
• anthropomorphic sculptures
• crosscultural communication
• interethnic communication