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Chersonesus (Херсонес) is an ancient city on the territory of Sevastopol, in the Crimea, Ukraine. The city was founded by the Ancient Greeks. Chersonesus is the city where Vladimir(the russian "knyaz'"(king) who convereted Russia into Christianinty) was suposedly baptized. The church in which he was baptized is still there. Nowdays there are few museums open on the territory of Chersonesus, the excavations of the ancient city are in progress. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chersonese Small icon for merging articles File links The following pages link to this file: Friction Jacobin Private branch exchange Pro-feminist Rotary piston engine Tagalog language Saint Veronica Spoiler effect Parser Password length equation Sudovian language Wikipedia:Why arent these pages copy-edited Static scoping Maximum power theorem General... Tauric Chersonesos, Greek Χερσονασος (Chersones, Khersones, Korsun, Russian: Херсонес) was the Greek settlement founded approximately 2500 years ago in the southwestern part of Crimean (Taurian) Peninsula. ...
During our visit at the Chersonesus Museum Preserve, we found two more menorot, again, on the floor of the museum in the basement, that had been discovered in sites that were supposedly dated to the early or middle Roman period.
In the Chersonesus Museum Preserve, we examined the two menorot that recently have been studied by E. Solomonik, who suggested that these stone carvings could not be dated accurately, but suggests the very broad time of the Roman or early Byzantine periods.
One of the menorot Solomonik discussed in her article was finely carved in the local limestone, with a lulov and a shofar at its base, and was found in secondary use in the foundation of the apse of the fifth century basilica which was excavated earlier this century by G.D. Belov (1933-1938).
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