Greeks and Romans in the Black Sea and the Importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World (7th century BC-5th century AD): 20 Years On (1997-2017): Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constana 18-22 September 2017) Multilingual edition [Minkštas viršelis]

Principal Editors Preface and Acknowledgments Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ;



Message from the President of the International Organising Committee John
Boardman ;


Welcome by the Secretary-General Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ;



Opening Lectures ;


Pontic studies twenty years on: terra incognita Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ;


Studies in Pontic epigraphy 1997-2017. Reviews and prospects Alexandru
Avram ;



Section 1: Foundation of Greek Colonies and the Character of Greek
Colonisation; their Relationship with Pontic and Near Eastern Local
Populations ;


The Western Cimmerians and the first Greek settlers in the Troad Jan G.
de Boer ;


Colonisation and foundation myth in the Pontic regions Ivy Faulkner-Gentry
;


Founding the Black Sea settlements. Between literary and archaeological
narrative John Brendan Knight ;


Colonisation of Miletus in the Propontis and Pontus the view from Sardis
Alexandar Portalsky ;


Lonomastique des magistrats monétaires dApollonia du Pont Dan Dana,
Madalina Dana ;


Understanding Greek-native interaction in early Greek Black Sea colonisation.
An example from Istros/Histria Lieve Donnellan ;


Orgame necropolis: a contextual study of the earliest pottery imports
Pierre Dupont and Vasilica Lungu ;


Myrmekion during and after Greek colonisation Alexander Butyagin ;


Comparative research between the Macedonian tombs and the Scythian kurgans
Peli Plika ;


Giresun and its vicinity in the Greek colonisation period Salih Kaymakēi ;



Between crisis and conflicts: the territory of Apollonia Pontica in the Late
Classical and Early Hellenistic periods Alexandre Baralis, Martin Gyuzelev
and Krastina Panayotova ;


The farming of the Azov coast of East Crimea: a unique type of agricultural
fortress Aleksei Kasparov ;


Women warriors(?) and the Amazon myth: the evidence of female burials with
weapons in the Black Sea area Despoina Vovoura ;



Section 2: Pontus and Athens; Pontic Art; Religion; Navigation and Trade;
Pontic Kingdoms ;


Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: grandeur et
décadence dun circuit économique Thibaut Castelli ;


From the tower of Kronos to the island of Achilles: placing Leuce in the
Greek conception of heroic apotheosis Marios Kamenou ;


Cultes marins, cultes ioniens en mer Noire Alexandra Liu, Valentin Bottez
and Alexandra ārlea ;


Imports and imitations? Some observations on Archaic kouroi discovered in the
Black Sea region Veronika Sossau ;


Zur Frühgeschichte der Tempelzone von Histria: Vorläufiger Bericht über zwei
ältere Fundkomplexe Konrad Zimmermann ;


The Paphlagonians and the Greeks perception of them Manolis Manoledakis ;



Aspects of the economy of the Greek colonies on the west coast of the Black
Sea: end of the Archaic-Hellenistic period Nicolaie Alexandru ;


Trade routes and the historical geography of the south-western coast of the
Black Sea and the mouth of the Bosporus Mustafa H. Sayar ;


Pistiros: urban planning and functional analysis Jan Bouzek() and Barbora
Weissovį ;


Some observations on the dynamics of trade in transport amphorae on the
Berezan settlement Dmitry Chistov ;


Attic black-glazed import in the European Bosporus in the 6th-2nd centuries
BC Tatiana Egorova ;


The capital of the Scythian kingdom in the Dobrudja Metodi Manov ;


Alexander of Macedon, Pharasmanes of Chorezm and Zopyrion: the impossible
alliance Dan-Tudor Ionescu ;


The partition of Thrace after the death of Alexander the Great: Lysimachus,
heir of the Odrysian kingdom? Aliénor Rufin Solas ;


Anthropomorphic rod-formed pendants and beads from the West Pontic coast (and
Thrace) Mila Chacheva ;


Euergetism and benefaction in ancient Olbia Oksana Ruchynska ;


Bithynia: the Phrygian interface Maya Vassileva ;



Section 3: Later Republic and Early Empire in Pontus and the Relationship
with the Local Population; Art; Religion; Navigation and Trade ;


Quelques remarques sur la population de Topolog et de Mihai Bravu (nord de la
Mésie Inférieure) Lucreiu Mihailescu-Bīrliba ;


Roman and Late Roman Pontic cargoes in the Aegean: the evidence from
shipwrecks George Koutsouflakis and Peter B. Campbell ;


The circulation of counterfeit coins in Roman Dobrudja (1st-3rd centuries AD)
Gabriel Custurea and Dan Vasilescu ;


Anatolian stonemasons and the West Pontic region: imported models and
techniques in the architectural decorations of the early Principate Zdravko
Dimitrov ;


Rewriting Pontic ethne: problems and prospects Denver Graninger ;


Protecting the grave in a Graeco-Roman city: a look at the West Pontic coast
Drago Hlmagi ;


Balbus, A Roman surveyor in Dacia Alexandru Morintz ;


Between civil and religious law in funerary practice within Roman settlements
on the western shore of the Black Sea Ioana Murean and Lucian-Mircea
Murean ;


Anastasius coins in the eastern Carpathian regions (AD 491-518) Sergiu
Mustea ;


On some unknown Pontic amphora types from Roman and Early Byzantine times
Andrei Opai ;


Die Römer in dem linken Pontus: der Fall des Ovidius Alexander Podossinov
;


Buildings for gladiatorial fights in the Roman Black Sea provinces Marius
C. Streinu ;


Local cultures narrated in art: Dacian architecture as reflected on Trajans
Column Georgia Aristodemou ;


The concept of strategic culture and its applicability in the fields of
ancient history Lorenzo Boragno ;


Amasya in the Early Byzantine period Emine Naza Dönmez ;


Moving supplies to the Roman garrison in Dobrogea Stephen Matthews ;


The fortification system of the kingdom of Lazika (Egrisi) in the 4th-6th
centuries AD Nikoloz Murgulia ;


Late Hellenistic and Early Roman pottery at Rachelu. The current state of
research on an open settlement close to Noviodunum Alina Streinu and
Vasilica Lungu ;


Some notes on the founder cult in western Pontic cities in the Roman period
Ivo Topalilov ;



Section 4: New Excavations and Projects ;


A Punic necklace from Oluz Höyük: a general evaluation for Anatolia evket
Dönmez ;


The place of amphorae from Oluz Höyük in northern Anatolian and Black Sea
archaeology Fidane Abazolu ;


Amisos terracotta statuettes in Istanbul Archaeological Museums Sümer
Atasoy ;


The coins found at the excavations of Amasya/Oluz Höyük, 2009-2013 Bülent
Öztürk ;


Terracotta production of the Black Sea coast of Turkey: the example of Sinope
Zeynep Koēel Erdem ;


The castle of Gölköy (Habsamana)/Ordu Davut Yiitpaa ;


Bemerkungen zu einer Gruppe von Grabstelen aus dem Museum von Sinop Akn
Temür ;


New data about the western part of Tanais the fortifications and their
vicinity Marcin Matera ;


Strabos Old Chersonesus in historiography and in the light of current
research Angelina Zedgenidze ;


From Archaeopolis to Onoguris: excavations in the heart of Lazika Paul
Everill, David Lomitashvili, Nikoloz Murgulia, Besik Lordkipanidze and Ian
Colvin ;


A city reconfigured: old and new research concerning Late Roman urbanism in
Istros Irina Achim, Valentin Bottez, Mircea Angelescu, Laureniu Cliante,
Alexandra ārlea and Alexandra Liu ;


New masters new rules. The beginning of the Roman Imperial cult in Istros
Valentin Bottez and Gabriel Talmachi ;


Cold case reopened: a Late Classical tomb in Apollonia Pontica Margarit
Damyanov, Maria Reho and Krastina Panayotova ;


Considerations regarding the Domus-type Roman urban house from Scythia Minor
(4th-6th centuries AD) Gabriel Talmachi ;


Concerning Athenian black-figure vases from Panticapaeum Andrey Agafonov
and Olga Samar ;


Specific features of ceramic materials from the earliest level of
Panticapaeum Natalia Astashova ;


Coastal Geoarchaeology of the Danube Delta. Results from Halmyris, Enisala
and Istros Alexandra Bivolaru, Matthieu Giaime, Christophe Morhange,
Valérie Andrieu-Ponel, Veronica Rossi, Nick Marriner and Alfred
Vespremeanu-Stroe ;


A Hellenistic family tomb and two Early Roman graves from Apollonia Pontica
Teodora Bogdanova, Margarita Popova, Dimitar Nedev and Milena Krumova ;


Recent finds of Hellenistic mould-made relief bowls from the Ordu/Fatsa
Cingirt Kayasi excavations in the southern Black Sea region Aye F. Erol
and Deniz Tamer ;


Late Roman tableware imports (from recent research in Histria/Istros) Iulia
Iliescu and Valentin Bottez ;


Pichvnari Classical cemetery Amiran Kakhidze and Emzar Kakhidze ;


Ash Hill 2 of Myrmekion: analysis of structure and bulk finds Vladimir
Kolosov ;


Coin finds from the recent excavations of Hermonassa Sergei A. Kovalenko ;



Archaeological evidence of Thracian-Greek cultural contacts in the
south-eastern part of the Dobrudja plateau during the Hellenistic period
Vassil Markov ;


Late Archaic relief plaques with warriors from Apollonia Pontica Krastina
Panayotova, Daniela Stoyanova and Margarit Damyanov ;


Stone anchors and stone and lead stocks from the Archaeological Museum in
Varna, Bulgaria Preslav I. Peev ;


Attic red-figure pottery from Sinope Suhal Salan and Zafer Korkmaz ;


Pontc sgllata pottery from a vlla rustca n Paphlagona Füsun Tülek ;




Section 5: Varia ;


Whats in a name? Who might be Basilissa Ulpia from Mtskheta? Eka Avaliani
;


Albanians and Sarmatians: overlapping identities in the eastern Caucasus
Lara Fabian ;


Studia Straboniana. The didactic character of the Geography and the
Romanophilia of its author Lyubov Gratsianskaya ;


Ancient pottery from the Balkans: architectural motifs Sasha Lozanova and
Stela Tasheva ;


The inhospitable and dangerous Salmydessus Miroslav Ivanov Vasilev ;


Iconographic personifications in Armenia and Bithynia-Phrygia Viktorya
Vasilyan ;



Appendix 1 Congress Programme ;


Appendix 2 Congress Abstracts of papers ;


List of contributors/lead authors and contact details

Gocha Tsetskhladze (PhD Moscow, DPhil Oxford) is a classical archaeologist who specialises in ancient Greek colonisation and the archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Caucasia, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1st millennium BC. ;





Alexandru Avram has been a professor of ancient Greek history at the University of Le Mans since 2002 after having taught at the University of Bucharest. His academic interests include Greek archaeology and amphorology and Greek and Latin epigraphy, in particular from the region of the Black Sea and Asia Minor. ;





James Hargrave has a PhD in Economic History from the University of Durham and a Diploma in Archive Administration from the University of Wales (Aberystwyth).