This article discusses a poorly studied child elite burial discovered in 1953 at the necropolis of Panticapaeum, situated near the modern city of Kerch, Crimea. A reassessment of previous research is urgently needed since it did not offer an analysis of Bosporan society from the perspective of childhood studies in general and local approaches to child mortality in particular. This fresh approach sheds new light on social structures and transformations within the northern Black Sea region. A broad chronological and geographical perspective is provided in order to detect changing mortuary rituals regarding deceased children in relation to shifting socio-political situations among North Pontic Greek and non-Greek societies. A survey of current social interpretations concerning the (in)visibility of children in the mortuary customs, particularly between the 4th century BCE and the 1st/2nd century CE, is followed by a detailed description of the history of research in the Panticapaeum necropolis. A comprehensive analysis of the grave goods that accompanied the deceased child is also provided. The discussed material suggests that a new form of elite self-representation, expressed through mortuary rites, appeared around the turn of the first millennium. This included a different approach to deceased children, whose ascribed status and expected, yet unfulfilled, social roles were frequently displayed by the family through the funerary ceremony.

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刻赤的儿童埋葬：公元前 4 世纪至公元 1/2 世纪北本都地区的太平间实践和儿童死亡率的方法

本文讨论了 1953 年在位于克里米亚现代城市刻赤附近的潘蒂卡帕墓地发现的一处未经充分研究的儿童精英墓葬。迫切需要对先前的研究进行重新评估，因为它没有从一般的儿童研究和特别是当地儿童死亡率的方法的角度对博斯普鲁斯社会进行分析。这种新方法为黑海北部地区的社会结构和转型提供了新的视角。提供了广泛的时间和地理视角，以便发现与北本都希腊和非希腊社会社会政治局势变化相关的已故儿童殡葬仪式的变化。对当前关于儿童在太平间习俗中（尤其是公元前 4 世纪至公元 1/2 世纪）的社会解释进行了调查，随后详细描述了 Panticapaeum 墓地的研究历史。还对死者儿童随葬品进行了全面分析。讨论的材料表明，在第一个千年之交，出现了一种通过丧葬仪式表达的精英自我表现的新形式。这包括对已故儿童采取不同的态度，他们的家庭经常通过葬礼来展示其被赋予的地位和预期但尚未实现的社会角色。