🖼 Gorgippia Museum

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An open-air excavation of an ancient city right by the embankment: paved streets, wineries and sarcophagi, with finds from the tombs in the hall.

Gorgippia existed from the 4th century BC to the 3rd century AD and was part of the Bosporan Kingdom.
The city was named after Gorgippus, governor and brother of the Bosporan king Leucon I; before that it was the Sindian Harbour.
Strabo called Gorgippia the royal capital of the Sindi.
The city, covering more than 40 hectares, was destroyed around 240; most of it lies under modern Anapa.
The excavation shows paved streets, house foundations, wineries, wells and a stretch of the city wall.
In 1975–1976, while digging a foundation pit for a house, workers found the painted “Tomb of Heracles” with scenes of his labours.

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