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Two Fragmentary Vases from Miletus Imitating (?) Chian Pottery

Author(s): Gerald P. Schaus / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

Two fragmentary vases from the Aphrodite sanctuary at Miletus have affinities with Chian fine ware pottery. Both are colourfully decorated – one, a cup orchalice rim from the seventh century BC has Middle Wild Goat ornament; the other, a phiale, is Athenian in Six’s technique, from the late sixth or early fifth century BC. The former would benefit from clay analysis, while comparanda found in the Cyclades for the latter may also be candidates for analysis.

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Pontic Notes

Author(s): Gocha R. Tsetskhladze / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

This note is in two parts. The first contains comments on a recent article on the Protohistory of Istanbul, the discovery there of a „Phrygian”/„Thraco Phrygian” settlement, and its suggestion that the history of Istanbul begins in the Neolithic Period.The Second parts considers the recent publication of pottery assemblages from the Nemirov settlement in the hinterland of the Ukraine, discussing how Scythian this settlement was.

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Archaic East Greek Pottery from Nemirov Fortified Settlement and Some Questions of Distribution of Early Greek Pottery in the Northern Black Sea Region

Author(s): Marina Yu. Vakhtina / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

Nemirovo fortified settlement on the South Bug river belongs to one of gigantic sites of forest-steppe zone of the Northern Black Sea Coastal Region. The archeological study of this settlement in the 20th century have brought numerous and various archaeological finds. By modern investigations three basic components in material culture of the population of Nemirovo have been determined: local forest -steppe Early Scythian component, cultural impulse from the Eastern Hallstatt area and the evidences of the early contacts with the Greeks. The excavations at Nemirovo acropolis gave are presentative collection of the Archaic East Greek pottery, the large part of the examples were of South Ionian production dated to ca. 650/640-630 BC. The article deals with several fragments of Greek painted pottery from Nemirovo decorated in Middle Wild Goat Style I in the light of the problem of distribution of early Greek pottery over the barbarian hinterland (the evidences of the connections with the first Greek colonies of Lower Bug or pre-colonization contacts?).

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Amphorae Assemblages of the Second Quarter - Mid-6th Century BC from the North-Eastern Part of The Berezan Island Site

Author(s): Dmitrii Chistov / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

In this article we analyze joint finds of the transport amphorae, belonging to the different types and different centers of production, found in the filling of several structures of the archaic Berezan settlement, including dugouts and storage pits. Most of these structures are dated to the second quarter or to the beginning of the third quarter of the 6th century BC, i.e. to the time shortly before the beginning of the phase of rapid urbanization of Berezan settlement. Since the Berezan island site is well stratified, these assemblages give an essential data for establishing relative chronologies for various types of transport amphorae.

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An Assemblage of the mid-6th Century BC Well from the Berezan Excavations of 1963/1964

Author(s): Sergey Vladimirovich Monakhov,Elena Vladimirovna Kuznetsova,Dmitrii Chistov / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

The article is devoted to the assemblage of finds from the well excavated by the State Hermitage archaeological mission under the direction of K.S. Gorbunova in 1963–1964 on the Berezan island. Transport amphorae are represented by the Samian, Lesbian and Klazomenian production. In addition, fragments of handles belonging to Cypriot basket-handle amphorae appear in the same deposit. The filling of the well contained the significant number of complete and fragmented tableware vessels of the Corinthian, Chian, Attic, North and South Ionian production. The dating of painted pottery fits into the narrow chronological limits of the second – early third quarters of the 6th century BC. The deposit of the well is close to the ’border’ deposits and structures precedent to the early stage of the mass construction of stone-and mud brick houses in the third quarter of the 6th century BC. Probably, the well is synchronous with the dugouts of the second quarter of that century but it was filled up in the course of the rapid urbanization of the colony in the 540s BC or slightly later.

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Chian Kraters from the Excavation in Berezan

Author(s): Y.I. Ilyina / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

The purpose of this article is to present examples of Chian black-figure style pottery discovered in Berezan in 2006 and 2011. In the 6th century Chian workshop produces kraters painted in the black-figure style.

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On the Early Date of the Sanctuary of Demeter in Apollonia: Some East Greek Pottery

Author(s): Margarit Damyanov / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

The paper presents the East Greek pottery from the first half of the 6th c.BC, discovered at a site in ancient Apollonia Pontica, identified as a sanctuary of Demeter. Although fragmentary, the materials – Ionian cups, rosette bowls, etc. –indicate it emerged in the late first or the second quarter of the 6th c. BC, which fact make sit one of the earliest positively identified sanctuaries not only in Apollonia, but in the West Pontic region as a whole.

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Novelties from the Vani City Site

Author(s): Darejan Kacharava / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

Archaeological excavations carried out at the Vani site in 2002-2007 proved to be successful. Juxtaposition of the recent finds with the previous ones brought to light some novelties. Four cult constructions, dated to the second half of the 4th-3rd centuries BC were studied on the upper terrace of the site. Besides architectural and constructional similarities all the sanctuaries reveal some common features: all of them are connected with graves; inside or outside of some sanctuaries ritual burials of metal (bronze, iron) figurines were located. // In the majority of the graves a platform was arranged along the western wall of the grave-pit, on which retainers have been buried. The recent finds revealed one more shape borrowed by Colchian jewellers from the Greek world, namely, a pin-brooch. Two spacer-beads constitute innovations in the jewellery collection from Vani. One is swastika-shaped, while the other is rectangular. // Recent finds attest to the richness of Colchis in silver, too. Beads seem to be used in all possible cases. They were primarily used to decorate the shroud of the principal deceased; some of them composed necklaces and bracelets, while others were sawn on the headdress. Beads were used also to decorate a silver phiale.

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Timbres rhodiens des périodes I et II découverts à Callatis

Author(s): Livia Buzoianu / Language(s): French Issue: 51/2018

The article selects from among the amphoric stamps of Rhodes discovered in Callatis and published over time those of periods I and II according to the chronology established by Finkielsztejn in 2001. This selection led to corrections in the reading or identification of certain homonyms. We analyze the position of the names in the periods, the typology, the frequency on the Callatian market, any chronological references subsequent to the publication of Finkielsztejn, the situation of imports from nearby colonies and the territory. The "peak period" of Rhodian imports falls between ca. 270-247 BC AD, which separates Callatis from the rest of the West Pontic colonies. For the rest of the period - 246-199 BC. J. -C. -, the data compared to the situation in the territory are subject to interpretation.

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Contribution à l’étude des amphores de Myrsileia

Author(s): Thibaut Castelli / Language(s): French Issue: 51/2018

Le groupe de Myrsileia a été identifié d’abord par ses timbres. Il s’agit ici demieux connaître à partir de l’étude de 13 anses timbrées et d’une amphore presque complèteles caractéristiques des amphores de cette production d’un centre sud -pontique de la secondemoitié du IIIe s. av. J.-C. // The Myrsileia group was first identified by its stamps. From a study of 13 stamped handles and an almost complete amphora, we need to know better the characteristics of the amphorae of this production of a south-pontic center of the second half of the 3rd century. av. J.-C.

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Amphores timbrées d’époque hellénistique à Mytilène (Lesbos)

Author(s): Vasilica Lungu / Language(s): French Issue: 51/2018

Excavations carried out by the Canadian team from the University of Vancouver (resp. H. Williams) on two sites in Mytilene (Kastro and Rue de Nicomédie) yielded significant amphoric material dominated by gray pulp packaging of local origin, of the Lesvos type, but also containing a certain number of import items from the Hellenistic period, some of which are stamped, the subject of this communication. A total of 57 amphoric stamps have been collected and 42 identified so far; distributed among 13 production centers more or less insured. The Rhodesian stamps, which are in the majority, belong to several different chronological groups, and the Thasians, all in the recent era of stamping in Thasos. Even though these stamps come from excavated layers, they cannot be considered to have any real stratigraphic value. and absolute. On the other hand, they provide important data on amphoric prosopography and on the commercial exchanges maintained by the island of Lesbos.

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Roman Commerce And Elite Markets In The Eastern Mediterranean: A Case Study Of Three 2nd-century Shipwrecks Off Knidos

Author(s): Andrei Opaiț,Dan Davis,Michael Lee Brennan / Language(s): English Issue: 51/2018

The authors present three Roman shipwrecks, Knidos H, S, and R, recently identified in deep water off the Datça peninsula in the southeast Aegean. High resolution imagery allows substantial analysis of their cargoes. Knidos H was carrying between 1,300 and 1,500 amphorae, mostly of Agora M 54 type, accompanied by few Cilician imitation of Coan amphorae (Dr 2-4) and others belonging to the crew: Dr 24 similis, Knidian, and Agora G 199. Knidos S, a smaller ship, was transporting a mixed cargo of wine amphorae, including Agora G 199, Cylindrical amphora type I (previously believed to be Aegean), and a new variant of olive oil amphora Dr 24. Knidos R is represented by a small assemblage of amphorae (Dr 24, Cretan, and possibly Mendean types). Kitchen and drinking vessels that belonged to the crew were found on all three shipwrecks. The amphora evidence indicates that the ships sank in the first half of the 2nd century A.D. These discoveries illuminate Roman trade networks in the eastern Mediterranean and Aegean region, particularly between Cilicia Pedias and one or more unknown Aegean emporia at the political and economic height of the empire.

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Scurtă notă asupra unor așezări de tip tell din vestul Munteniei

Author(s): Cristian-Eduard Ștefan,Agata Bulei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 50/2017

In this text we analyze some tell settlements from western Wallachia, less known, which were identified by survey in the recent years. In this sense we used open web sources (Google Earth, INIS Viewer geoportal) and older maps, namely Artilery Firing Plans from the beginning of XXth century and maps of the Military Topographic Department made in the 70s.

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Histria. Un système urbain orthogonal sur le „Plateau”?

Author(s): Mircea Angelescu / Language(s): French Issue: 50/2017

The article is intended to analyse the information that we have today about the urbanism of the Greek city, in its different stages of development. The opportunity was the observation on orthophotoplans of traces that could be interpreted as an orthogonal urban grid on the Plateau, i.e. the western part of the site. This possibilty is discussed in the context of the results of previous exacavations in this area and of the discovered structures that would support this idea. The total surface of the city is difficult to estimate because an important part was submerged by the lake Sinoe, mainly to the North but to the East, as well. The surface enclosed by the fortifications dated to differtent Greek periods are estimated as:fortifications of the Acropolis (Archaic = 4.3 ha, Classic = 20.8 ha and Hellenistic = 7.4ha) and of the Plateau (Arhaic = 27.1 ha, Classic = 21.8 ha and Hellenistic = 32.3 ha). Thus, the minimal inhabited areas of Histria were approximated at 37.4 ha (Arhaic), 42.6ha (Classic) and 39.7 ha (Hellenistic). The traces of an orthogonal urban grid with the following dimensions is presumed in two areas of the western Plateau:E-W (dev. ~2°) = 100 ionic feet = 0.295 x 100 = 29.500 mN-S (dev. ~2°) = 133 ionic feet = 0.295 x 133 = 39.235 mLength-width ratio = 1 : 1.33Area = 100 feet x 133 feet = 29.500 m x 39.235 m = 1,157.43 m2But, of course, future surveys, topographical measurements and excavations have to confirm this hypothesis.

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Despre o zonă privilegiată a necropolei callatiene

Author(s): Nicolaie Alexandru,Robert Constantin,Mihai Ionescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 50/2017

Les auteurs présentent une recherche archéologique de sauvetage, entreprise dans les nécropoles antiques et modernes de Mangalia, l’ancienne cité de Callatis. Les tombes antiques, hellénistiques et romaines, sont différentes du point de vue du rite et du rituel funéraire ; les tombes d’inhumation sont prédominantes : 14 tombes d’époque hellénistique et romaine ; 8 tombes d’incinération d’époque hellénistique ont été également étudiées. Des constructions à caractère funéraire, des rings et des plateformes en blocs decalcaire y ont été découvertes aussi. Parmi les tombes d’inhumation on peut remarquer des tombes en ciste de pierre, enbrique, ainsi que des tombes à fosse simple ou à fosse couverte d’une pierre de calcaire. 32 tombes d’inhumation qui appartiennent à une nécropole moderne de la ville de Mangalia(XVIIIe –XIXe siècles) ont été étudiées. Les résultats de la recherche dans la partie nord de la cité antique montrent une continuité dans l'utilisation de l'espace depuis le IVe siècle av. J.-C. jusqu’à l’époque romano-byzantine. Les bâtiments et les complexes funéraires découverts soutiennent l'hypothèse que dans ce périmètre il y avait une zone privilégiée de la nécropole auxépoques hellénistique et romaine ; l'endroit était prioritaire du point de vue spatial,religieux et sacré. Nous avons observé une gestion complexe de l’espace par la découvertedes inhumations et crémations successives, de l’époque hellénistique et l’époque romaine ou des réinhumations dans des dolia ou des aplanissements avec de la terre jaune sur les tombes antérieurs. Dans la même zone, ont étés découverts des tombes importantes, comme la tombe avec papyrus, la plate-forme de crémation, et la tombe du guerrier aristocrate Celte. La nécropole appartenait, probablement, aux citoyens callatiens d’éliteou aux étrangers importants pour la ville. Les petites couronnes dorées et la construction d'un escharon prouvent l’hypothèse d’une place consacré au culte des héros.

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The Potsherds in Archaeological Context: Pottery from Late Roman Fort of Ulmetum (4th – 6th cent. AD). Report on the 2012 Archaeological Campaign at the North-west Gate. (I)

Author(s): Ştefan – Emilian Gamureac / Language(s): English Issue: 50/2017

The aim of this paper is to record accurately the archaeological findings of the 2012 excavations campaign at the north-west gate of the Late Roman fortification of Ulmetum – at present Pantelimonul de Sus, Constanța County, Romania. The potsherds are catalogued in a stratigraphic sequence in an attempt to contribute to a better dating of the pottery from this site. In this way some of the largely dated functional types of pottery may be more accurately dated in their chronological contexts. Also the presentation of the stratigraphy may contribute to a more accurate determination of the general phases of the Late Roman fortification use, even the context discoveries in the area of the north – west gate reduce the contribution only to particular aspects.

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A Note on a Fragmentary List of Names from Noviodunum

Author(s): Florin Topoleanu,Mihail Zahariade / Language(s): English Issue: 50/2017

The fragment of inscription found at Noviodunum (Isaccea) contains the names of five individuals. They hold each two names suggesting their initial peregrin origin. Given the importance of the find place and especially the position of Noviodunum as the headquarters of the Moesian Fleet (Classis Flavia Moesica), the five men must be considered most likely discharged classici from the same unit, apparently in the same headquarters. The piece may be part of a longer list of veterans from the fleet written up and exposed on the occasion of the discharge of a contingent likely in late 2 nd or early 3rd century.

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Sequence of Graves in Barrows 4th-3rd Millennium BC in the Danube-Tisza Region

Author(s): Piotr Włodarczak / Language(s): English Issue: 53/2020

Archaeological research of the “Ciganska humka” barrow in Šajkaš (Vojvodina, Republic of Serbia) was conducted in 2016. It brought about the discovery of two graves dated 3000-2900 BC and 2800-2600 BC, connected with steppe communities of eastern origin. In terms of construction, the older grave (no. 2) refers to graves withextended inhumations, known from, among other places, the Great Hungarian Plain,northern Bulgaria, and Muntenia. Graves of this type in the Danube-Tisza region date back to the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC and can be synchronized with the early phase of the Yamnaya culture. In most cases, mounds with extended inhumations were still built up in the first half of the 3rd millennium BC by Yamnaya communities that placed their burials in the central part of an older barrow. Various features indicate that this specific type of body arrangement, in an extended supine position, was one of the variants used by the genetically diverse population of the older phase of the Yamnaya culture.

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Fragmente de sculpturi din sectorul T de la Histria cu reprezentarea divinității Meter Theon

Author(s): Florina Panait-Bîrzescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 53/2020

The paper presents four marble finds from Histria, sector T, representing Meter Theon. The sketched features of the two statuettes, and the washed surface of the other two pieces, which have been exposed in open air for a long period of time, make them difficult to date. Nevertheless, some still visible details point to a Hellenistic style. The chronology of these finds is discussed both in the context of similar representations of Meter from Histria, which are 18 altogether, as in that of the representations found especially in the cities on the West coast of the Black Sea. Another aspect regards the relation of these finds with the sanctuary that ceased to function in the sector T during the Roman period. The discovery context, namely 4th – 6th c. AD building walls, as well as other evidence regarding the cult of Meter at Histria point to a growing importance during the Roman period. Besides the four sculptures from the sector T, a concentration of epigraphic and sculptural finds belonging to a sanctuary, most of them related to Meter cult, is noticed in the south-eastern corner of the Histrian acropolis, in the sector Domus. The numerous statuettes of Meter, at first sight an indication of the growing popularity of her cult during the Hellenistic and Roman periods, are rather a consequence of the votive habit of displaying images of the goddess in public and domestic sanctuaries, habit that boosted especially in the Roman period, when it was favoured by the increasing mass production of marble items.

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News of Classis Flavia Moesica in Rasova. Reexamining the Tile Stamps of the Fleet on the Lower Danube Limes

Author(s): Ioan Carol Opriș / Language(s): English Issue: 53/2020

A stray find from Rasova (Constanța county) bearing a CLASF[M] inscription brings to the fore the issue of the construction material with stamps of Classis Flavia Moesica, typology included. The tile has a special importance. It is actually the missing puzzle piece for inferring an early Trajanic fleet installation in Rasova and was found at the top of the so-called ”Fortress Hill”. The latter is located next to a horreum and monumental context with a Bauinschrift (dated 106 AD or a little later) and moreover along to the limes road in precisely the same place where later on Flaviana and Milites Nauclarii were mentioned in Notitia Dignitatum (Or., XXXIX, 20). Given the lack of clear archaeological contexts, it is hard to say for now if the CLASFM stamps are early 2nd century or later ones. The production must be cautiously distributed between, roughly speaking, Trajan's bellum Dacicum and the end of the Antonine dinasty.

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