Translated article by N. P. Toll on a small piece of Chinese silk with a rhomb (lozenge) pattern found in a first- or second-century A.D. burial mound at Kerch in the Crimea. Toll dates the burial from the associated carved cypress tripod, compares the pattern with Chinese silks from Lou-lan and Mongolia and with Chou-dynasty bronze ornament, and argues the silk is Chinese rather than Roman or Egyptian. The second half reviews trade routes by which Chinese silk could reach southern Russia: the Mediterranean land and sea routes and a northern steppe route described by Herodotus, Pliny, Strabo and Chinese chronicles, including Hiung-nu silk trade. Illustrated with a plate of the Kerch silk, line figures and two maps.