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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 the Mediterranean from about 600 BCE to 200 CE. Seeking to shed light on several central aspects of the economic relationship that existed between these two eminently important regions in antiquity, the contributors, who are scholars of ancient history and archaeology, consider old and new evidence, propose novel approaches and propound a number of fresh interpretations. Key issues are the types of commodities traded and the relative volume of that trade from one period to the next; the relations existing between points of production and points of consumption; the institutional settings defining the organization of exchanges; the impact of fiscal exactions (e.g. toll payments at the Bosporus Straits) on trade, etc. The overarching question is whether the Black Sea and the Mediterranean complemented each other in economic terms, and were thus organically linked.
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THE BLACK SEA IN ANTIQUITY REGIONAL AND INTERREGIONAL ECONOMIC EXCHANGES
BLACK SEA STUDIES
6 THE DANISH NATIONAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION’S CENTRE FOR BLACK SEA STUDIES
THE BLACK SEA IN ANTIQUITY REGIONAL AND INTERREGIONAL ECONOMIC EXCHANGES
Edited by Vincent Gabrielsen and John Lund
AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS a
THE BLACK SEA IN ANTIQUITY © Aarhus University Press 2007 Cover design by Lotte Bruun Rasmussen Detail from the Sarcophagus for Kornelios Arrianos found at Yalı, now in the Sinop Museum, inv. no. 16.1.98. 1st-2nd century AD. Photo: Jakob Munk Højte. Printed in Denmark by Narayana Press, Gylling ISBN: 978 87 7934 266 8 AARHUS UNIVERSITY PRESS Langelandsgade 177 DK-8200 Aarhus N White Cross Mills Lancaster LA1 4XS England Box 511 Oakville, CT 06779 USA www.unipress.dk
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Contents
Vincent Gabrielsen and John Lund Introduction
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Alan Greaves Milesians in the Black Sea: Trade, Settlement and Religion
9
Marina Ju. Vachtina Greek Archaic Orientalising Pottery from the Barbarian Sites of the Forest-steppe Zone of the Northern Black Sea Coastal Region
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David Braund Black Sea Grain for Athens? From Herodotus to Demosthenes
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Alfonso Moreno Athenian Wheat-Tsars: Black Sea Grain and Elite Culture
69
Lise Hannestad Timber as a Trade Resource of the Black Sea
85
Andrei Opaiţ A Weighty Matter: Pontic Fish Amphorae
101
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen The One That Got Away: A Reassessment of the Agoranomos Inscription from Chersonesos (VDI 1947.2, 245; NEPKh II, 129)
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Alexander V. Karjaka Amphora Finds of the 4th Century BC from the Settlements of the Lower Dnieper Region
133
Yvon Garlan Échanges d’amphores timbrées entre Sinope et la Méditerranée aux époques classique et hellénistique
143
Vladimir F. Stolba Local Patterns of Trade in Wine and the Chronological Implications of Amphora Stamps
149
Krzysztof Domżalski Changes in Late Classical and Hellenistic Fine Pottery Production in the Eastern Mediterranean as Reflected by Imports in the Pontic Area
161
John Lund The Circulation of Ceramic Fine Wares and Transport Amphorae from the Black Sea Region in the Mediterranean, c. 400 BC–AD 200
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Sergej Ju. Saprykin The Unification of Pontos: The Bronze Coins of Mithridates VI Eupator as Evidence for Commerce in the Eu