The 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) : : Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanţa - 18-22 September 2017).

• Author: Tsetskhladze, Gocha R.
• TeilnehmendeR: Avram, Alexandru.; Hargrave, James.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2021.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (777 pages)

The proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanţa, 2017) is dedicated to the 90th birthday of Prof. Sir John Boardman, President of the Congress since its inception. The central theme returns to that considered 20 years earlier: the importance of the Pontic Region for the Graeco-Roman World.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- Principal Editor's Preface and Acknowledgments -- Message from the President of the International Organising Committee -- Welcome by the Secretary-General -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Gocha R. Tsetskhladze -- Pontic studies twenty years on: terra incognita? -- Alexandru Avram -- Studies in Pontic epigraphy 1997-2017. Reviews and prospects -- Foundation of Greek Colonies and the Character of Greek Colonisation -- their Relationship with Pontic and Near Eastern Local Populations -- Section 1 -- Jan G. de Boer -- The 'Western Cimmerians' and the first Greek settlers in the Troad -- Figure 1: G2-3 ware from Troy (after Aslan 2011, 391) -- Figure 2: The harbour of Troy in the 7th century BC. -- Figure 3: List of 17 thalassocracies from Diodorus (after Myres 1906, 88). -- Figure 4: Map of the possible maritime activities from the Treres in Anatolia. -- Colonisation and Foundation Myth in the Pontic Regions -- Ivy Faulkner-Gentry -- Founding the Black Sea settlements. Between literary and archaeological narratives -- John Brendan Knight -- Figure 1: Models of overseas settlement. -- Figure 2: Chronology of urban features at selected settlements. -- Alexandar Portalsky -- Colonisation of Miletus in the Propontis and Pontus - the view from Sardis -- Dan Dana -- L'onomastique des magistrats monétaires d'Apollonia du Pont -- Madalina Dana -- Lieve Donnellan -- Understanding Greek-native interaction in early Greek Black Sea colonisation. An example from Istros/Histria -- Figure 1: Tumulus XX (adapted from Alexandrescu 1966, 1966, 145, fig. 14). -- Figure 2: Tumulus XVII (adapted from Alexandrescu and Eftimie 1959, 146-47, figs. 5-6). -- Figure 3: Tumulus XIX (adapted from Alexandrescu 1966, 151, fig. 17).

Figure 4: Tumulus XII (adapted from Alexandrescu 1966, 156, fig. 19) -- Figure 5: Map listing native parallels for the distribution of tomb type JAa1 (after Alexandrescu 1966, 266 fig. 63). -- Figure 6: Various network configurations. The ability of a node to reach any other one depends on its place in the network (after Barabàsi 2002, 145 fig. 11.1). -- Figure 7: Map of the sites used in the analysis. -- Figure 8: Network of burial sites (red dots) and the main characteristics included in the analysis (blue dots). The closer the nodes, the more they are coincident (resemble each other). -- Orgame Necropolis: A contextual study of the earliest pottery imports -- Pierre Dupont -- Vasilica Lungu -- Figure 1: Map of Orgame with location of nearby Archaic necropolis. -- Figure 3: Orgame necropolis. Tumulus T.A95. -- Figure 5: East Greek dull black-glazed oinochoe (last third of the 7th century BC). -- Figure 6: Ionian cup of Villard A1/Hayes II type (ca. 630-590 BC). -- Figure 7: Ionian cup of Villard A1/Hayes II type (ca. 630 BC). -- Figure 8: Amphora of Clazomenian type (ca. 650-620 BC). -- Figure 10: MWG II oinochoe issued from Straits workshop (turn of the 7th century/early 6th century BC). -- Figure 11: Button-based Ionian bowl (turn of 7th century BC) from outside burial m. 3. -- Figure 12: Flaring pedestalled deinos-stand from outside burial m. 3. -- Figure 9: Amphorae of Lesbian grey type: mouth, two ring-based bottoms (second half of the 7th century BC). -- Figure 13: Corinthian MC (ca. 600-580 BC)/LC I (ca. 580-550 BC) aryballos with quatrefoil pattern. -- Figure 14: Streamlined grey oinochoe (second quarter of the 6th century BC). -- Figure 15: Bobbin-shaped grey deinos stand. -- Figure 16: Amphora of Lesbian red type (last third of 7th/first half of 6th century BC?).

Figure 17: Handmade Getic urn with finger impressed string pattern (third quarter/beginning last quarter of the 6th century BC). -- Figure 18: Grey table-amphora with low convex lip (second half of the 7th-first half of the 6th century BC). -- Figure 19: Amphora of Lesbian grey type (second half of the 6th century BC). -- Figure 20: Button-based Ionian bowl (ca. 620-590 BC). -- Figure 21: Mouth of Corinthian aryballos. -- Figure 22: Amphora of Lesbian red type (late 7th-first half of the 6th century BC). -- Figure 23: Ionian cup of Villard A1 type (ca. 640/30-600 BC). -- Figure 24: North Ionian ring askos (ca. 630-600 BC). -- Figure 26: Biconical grey oinochoe (turn of the 7th century BC). -- Figure 27: North Ionian ring askos (ca. 610-575 BC). -- Alexander Butyagin -- Myrmekion during and after Greek colonisation -- Figure 1: Myrmekion in the Archaic period. Growth scheme. 1 - First half of 6th century BC, 2 - Second half of 6th century BC, 3 - First quarter of 5th century BC, 4 - Second quarter of 5th century BC, a - settlement, b - necropolis, c - fortification w -- Figure 2: Myrmekion. Child's grave in Samian amphora, third quarter of 6th century BC. -- Figure 3: Myrmekion. Part of regular quarter in the central part of the settlement, first quarter of 5th century BC. -- Figure 4: Myrmekion. Plan of the northern part of the Late Archaic regular quarter. -- Figure 5: Map of Kerch Bay in antiquity. -- Comparative research between the Macedonian tombs and the Scythian kurgans -- Peli Plika -- Figure 1: Golden earrings from the Kul-Oba kurgan. -- Figure 2: Golden earrings from the Tomb Z at Derveni (after Themelis and Touratsoglou 1997, 26). -- Figure 3: Necklace from Nymhaeum (after Redfern 2012, 66). -- Figure 4: Necklace from Tomb Z at Derveni (after Themelis and Touratsoglou 1997, 24). -- Figure 5: The neck of the Derveni krater.

Figure 6: The golden gorget from the Tolstaya Mogila kurgan. -- Figure 7: The golden gorget from the antechamber of Tomb II at Vergina. -- Figure 8: Golden gorytus from the Tomb II at Vergina (after Andronikos 1984, 182-83). -- Figure 9: Golden gorytus from the Karagodeuashkh kurgan, Kuban region -- Salih Kaymakçi -- Giresun and its vicinity in the Greek colonisation period -- Figure 1: Map of the eastern part of the Pontic coast of Turkey in the Greek colonisation period. -- Figure 2: Pottery of Greek colonisation period from Giresun (after Doksanaltı and Ekici 2017, 393). -- Figure 3: Eynesil fortress, Giresun. -- Figure 4: Eynesil fortress. Workshop out of the walls. -- Figure 5: Zephyron Point, Giresun. -- Alexandre Baralis -- Krastina Panayotova -- Martin Gyuzelev -- Between crisis and conflicts: the territory of Apollonia Pontica in the late classical and early Hellenistic periods -- Figure 1: Apollonia Pontica and the western Black Sea coast (DAO P. Pentsch). -- Figure 2: Plan of rural site Messarite 4 (T. Bogdanova and A. Kamenarov). -- Figure 3: Aerial view of Messarite 4 (L. Damelet). -- Figure 4: Plan of the rural building Sveta Marina 1 (C. Christov). -- Figure 5: Aerial view of Sveta Marina 1 (L. Damelet). -- Figure 6: Aerial view of Messarite 4 (L. Damelet). -- Figure 7: Rural building Messarite 6 (A. Baralis). -- Figure 8: Lead sling bullet in 2019 on the site of Messarite 4 (PIN 412) (K, Panayotova). -- Aleksei Kasparov -- The farming of the Azov coast of East Crimea: a unique type of 'agricultural fortress' -- Figure 1: Location of sites mentioned on the Azov coast of the Crimea. -- Figure 2: The degree of similarity of the species structure of faunal collections from the Hellenistic settlements of the Kerch peninsula.

Figure 3: Anatomical composition of the main bone groups of osteological remains of cattle from some Hellenistic sites of the Kerch peninsula. -- Despoina Vovoura -- Women warriors(?) and the Amazon myth: the evidence of female burials with weapons in the Black Sea area -- Figure 1: Skelki Cemetery, Burial 44, plan and section of the burial and grave-goods (after Fialko 2013, 207). -- Figure 2: Mamay-Gora cemetery, sets of grave-goods 1: Kurgan 54 -- 2: Kurgan 71 -- 3: Kurgan 85 -- 4: Kurgan 100 -- 5: Kurgan 139 -- 6: Kurgan 138 (after Fialko 2010, 194). -- Figure 3: Novoye cemetery, Kurgan 6, plan and section of the burial and grave-goods (after Boltryk and Fialko 2011, 146). -- Figure 4: Novoye cemetery, Kurgan 8, plan and section of the burial and grave-goods (after Boltryk and Fialko 2011, 149). -- Figure 5: Novoye cemetery, Kurgan 12, plan and section of the burial and grave-goods (after Boltryk and Fialko 2011, 166). -- Figure 6: Tumulus 22, Vinogradnoe village, location of the sword (after Fialko 2012, 223). -- Figure 7: Tumulus 22, Vinogradnoe village, grave-goods (after Fialko 2012, 224). -- Section 2 -- Pontus and Athens -- Pontic Art -- Religion -- Navigation and Trade -- Pontic Kingdoms -- Thibaut Castelli -- Thasos et la mer Noire aux époques classique et hellénistique: 'grandeur et décadence' d'un circuit économique -- Tableau 1: Fréquences absolues et parts des timbres thasiens dans les principaux centres consommateurs du Pont Gauche. -- Tableau 2: Fréquences absolues et parts des timbres sinopéens dans les principaux centres consommateurs du Pont Gauche. -- Marios Kamenou -- From the tower of Kronos to the island of Achilles: placing Leuce in the Greek conception of heroic apotheosis -- Alexandra Lițu, Valentin Bottez et Alexandra Țârlea -- Cultes marins, cultes ioniens en mer Noire -- Veronika Sossau.

Imports and imitations? Some observations on Archaic kouroi discovered in the Black Sea region.