for their assistance during the topographical investigations of the site. We are also grateful to Prof. Pierfrancesco Callieri and Prof. Maurizio Tosi who have kindly revised earlier versions of this text.1 The preliminary presentation of the Project is in Shirinov, Tosi 2003, 13-40. 2 In particular the topographical studies by M.E. Masson, who prepared the first detailed map of the area (Masson 1928) (Fig. 10), and the excavations carried out throughout the Soviet period by G.

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