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Title 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): 20 years on (1997-2017) : proceedings of the Sixth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities (Constanta - 18-22 September 2017) / edited by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Alexandru Avram, James Hargrave
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 751 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps
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)
Summary 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
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Figure 7: Ionian cup of Villard A1/Hayes II type (ca. 630 BC)
Subject Greeks -- Black Sea Coast -- History -- Congresses
Romans -- Black Sea Coast -- History -- Congresses
Greeks -- Turkey -- History -- Congresses
Romans -- Turkey -- History -- Congresses
Classical Greek & Roman archaeology.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Greeks
Romans
SUBJECT Pontus -- History -- Congresses
Subject Asia -- Black Sea Coast
Mediterranean Region -- Pontus
Turkey
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Tsetskhladze, Gocha R., editor
Avram, Alexandru, 1956-2021, editor.
Hargrave, James, editor
ISBN 9781789697599
178969759X