Title: The Black Sea in antiquity : regional and interregional economic exchanges /
Authors: Gabrielsen, Vincent; Lund, John, 1951-
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Year: 2007
Subjects: Commerce Black Sea Region Congresses.; Commerce Congresses; Black Sea Region Economic conditions History Congresses.; Black Sea Region Antiquities Congresses.
Abstract: "This volume addresses a wide range of issues concerning the economic exchanges that took place within the Black Sea region, and between the Black Sea and Mediterranean areas from about 700 BC to AD 200."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction / Vincent Gabrielsen and John Lund -- Milesians in the Black Sea: trade, settlement and religion / Alan Greaves -- Greek archaic orientalising pottery from the barbarian sites of the forest-steppe zone of the northern Black Sea coastal region / Marina Ju. Vachtina -- Black Sea grain for Athens? from Herodotus to Demosthenes / David Braund -- Athenian wheat-tsars: Black Sea grain and elite culture / Alfonso Moreno -- Timber as a trade resource of the Black Sea / Lise Hannestad -- A weighty matter: Pontic fish amphorae / Andrei Opait -- The one that got away: a reassessment of the Agoranomos inscription from Chersonesos (VDI 1942.2, 245; NEPKh II, 129) / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen -- Amphora finds of the 4th century BC from the settlements of the lower Dnieper region / Alexander V. Karjaka -- Échanges d'amphores timbrées entre Sinope et le Méditerranéaus époques classique et hellénistique / Yvon Garlan -- Local patters of trade in wine and the chronological implications of amphora stamps / Vladimir F. Stolba -- Changes in late classical and Hellenistic fine pottery production in eastern Mediterranean as reflected by imports in the Pontic area / Krzysztof Domżalski -- The circulation of ceramic fine wares and transport amphorae from the Black Sea Region in the Mediterranean, c. 400 BC-AD 200 / John Lund -- The unification of Pontos: the bronze coins of Mithridates VI Eupator as evidence for commerce in the Euxine / Sergej Ju. Saprykin -- Lighting equipment of the northern Pontic area in the Roman and late Roman periods: imports and local production / Denis V. Žuravlev -- Some thoughts about the Black Sea and the slave trade before the Roman domination (6th-1st centuries BC) / Alexandru Avram -- Contacts between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Black Sea in the early Hellinistic age / Zofia Halina Archibald -- Traders and travelers in the Black and Aegean Seas / Gary Reger -- Trade and tribute: Byzantion and the Black Sea Straits / Vincent Gabrielsen.