Tolstikov V.P., Kuzmina Yu.N.

Key words: classical period, Hellenism, Bosporan Kingdom, classical architecture, Hellenistic pottery, amphora stamps.
In 2009 the Bosporus expedition of the State Museum of Fine Arts discovered that the building complex with the peristyle court in the central area of Panticapaeum (investigated since 2004) had been preceded by an earlier and no less monumental structure. At the present stage, three elements of the complex have been discovered: three interconnecting rooms, a corridor and a cellar. It is important that the older complex is contemporaneous with the residence of the Spartocides, the basileia on the Acropolis of the town. The discovery expands our knowledge about the architectural and planning environment in the central area of Panticapaeum during phase I of building period V which is third quarter of the 4th – first half of the 3d cc. BC according to the periodization by V.P. Tolstikov.