The Mediterranean in Barbaricum: the privileged burials of Cimmerian Bosphorus in the post-Hunnic period (second half of the 5th-first half of the 6thcenturies). During the second half of the fifth and the early sixth century, a restricted number of tombs appear in the Cimmerian Bosphorus containing ceremonial weapons, harnesses and tack for horses and articles of male clothing: swords, horse bits and buckles (Kerch, tombs 163.1904 and 6.1905; Djurga-Oba, tomb 40; Taman peninsula, tomb of 1912). Similarly, there are female burials with items of luxury clothing (Djurga- Oba, tomb 40). These prestige artefacts show that these burials belong to individuals who were members of the ruling class of the region in the period following the break-up of Hunnic power. Similar tombs from the same chronological phase have emerged in central and western Europe and reflect the “princely” nature of the “barbarian” kingdoms in the Early Middle Ages. Even older aristocratic burials (late fourth-early fifth century) have also been found in the Cimmerian Bosphorus which show the cultural continuity of the local aristocracy during the period of the Great Migrations. Keywords: Cimmerian Bosphorus, post-Hunnic period, aristocratic burials, weapons, harnesses and tack for horses; articles of luxury clothing.