The main exhibition of the Museum of the History of the Resort City of Sochi, dedicated to the archaeological monuments of the Sochi region, presents a small silver Italic jug.
Despite the common shape of the jug, it can still be called unusual because of its decoration: the upper part of the jug’s handle around the neck is shaped like a palmette and is adorned with engraved images. According to researchers, this object dates to the late Roman period, around the 4th century CE. A similarly shaped jug with almost identical décor was found in Sirmium (the modern city of Sremska Mitrovica in Serbia, located on the left bank of the Sava River), it also dates to the first quarter of the 4th century. In its shape, the jug is close to Italic items of similar purpose from the beginning of the new era. The silver jug and other items found in the Krasnaya Polyana area indicate that local tribes used to have good trade relations. The jug was accidentally discovered in 1942 while digging a trench on the outskirts of the village of Krasnaya Polyana in a burial dating back to the first centuries CE.
In his book “Antiquities of Sochi and Its Environs”, Yuri Nikolayevich Voronov described the significance of the find as follows,
