Parthenion
Greek settlement in the Bosporan kingdom, 5 km E of Mirmekion on the N shore of the Black Sea and dating to the 5th c. B.C. (Strab. 7.4.2; 11.2). From the 5th c. B.C. to the 1st-2d c. A.D. the settlement covered an area of 150 by 84.5 sq. m. Pottery and terracottas (busts of Kore) are from Bosporan workshops of the 4th-3d c. Stamped amphorae from Rhodes and Sinope dating to the 3d-2d c. have been found. The Hermitage Museum contains material from the site.
BIBLIOGRAPHYV. V. Veselov, “Drevnie gorodishcha v raione Siniagino (K voprosu o mestopolozhenii Parfeniia i Porfmiia),” Arkheologiia i istoriia Bospora, I (1952) 227-37; E. G. Kastanaian, “Arkheologicheskaia razvedka na gorodishche Parfenii v 1949 g.,” Bosporskie goroda, II [Materialy i issledovaniia po arkheologii SSSR, No. 85] (1958) 254-65.
M. L. BERNHARD & Z. SZTETYŁŁO