Cimmerian Bosporus, who (according to
Aeschines) made a present of a place called "the Gardens" to
Gylon, the grandfather of
Demosthenes. The town reached its peak in the 1st centuries AD, but the
Huns and
Goths put an end to its prosperity in the 4th century. Soviet excavations, started in 1957, yielded rich finds, including a marble statue of a Greek goddess ("Aphrodite of Taman"). More than 400 burials were explored at Kepoi in the 1960s and 1970s; the rest of the site has been submerged by the
Sea of Azov
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