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{{Short description|Ancient city near Cimmerian Bosporus}}
'''Kepoi''' or '''Cepoi''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Κῆποι, [[Russian language|Russian]]: Кепы) was an ancient [[Greek colony]] situated on the [[Taman peninsula]], three kilometres to the east of [[Phanagoria]], in the present-day [[Krasnodar Krai]] of [[Russia]]. The colony was established by the [[Milesians (Greek)|Milesians]] in the 6th century BC. In the Hellenistic period, it was controlled by the kings of the [[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]].

== See also ==
* [[List of ancient Greek cities]]

==References==
*Сокольский Н. И., Кепы, в сб.: Античный город (Moscow, 1963).

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[[Category:Milesian Pontic colonies]]
[[Category:Bosporan Kingdom]]
[[Category:Populated places established in the 6th century BC]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Russia]]


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