Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology by Gocha R Tsetskhladze

Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology by Gocha R Tsetskhladze

Tios/Tieion was intended to be a publication of the proceedings of a conference held at Filyos (ancient Tios/Tieion) in 2020. The conference had to be cancelled in common with other events due to Covid 19, though with the hope that it might take place eventually, a hope undermined by the sudden and premature death of Gocha Tsetskhladze, the co-organiser. Instead, we have a volume of ‘Precedings’, written when thoughts of the conference had not yet been abandoned. Several of the papers focus on aspects of Tios itself (the Acropolis, the Lower City and Coin Finds, written by scholars involved in the excavation). Its place in ancient geography and cartography is considered before we move on to the indigenous inhabitants of the surrounding area, the immediate and greater region (Paphlagonian Hadrianopolis, Hadrian’s visit to the region, the nature of the Phrygian kingdom), then the Turkish Black Sea region (rock-cut tunnels, Roman Heraclea Pontica, St John Chrysostom’s Monastery), and outwards to the western, northern and eastern shoreb /nb /nbs of the Black Sea, their inhabitants and hinterlands (monumental architecture in the temenos of Apollonbbn/ ia Pontica; Archaic Greek transport amphorae in the Getic hinterland; early Greek pottery in settlements  and burials of the northern Black Sea region; the house of Pythes at Berezan; the Sindoi; religious customs at Tarasova Balka; the Mordvinovskii Barrow; and finally Greeks and locals in Pichvnari in Colchis). Overall, there are 21 chapters and 27 authors, drawn from Turkey, Russia, Georgia, Bulgaria and beyond.

Gocha Tsetskhladze (PhD Moscow, DPhil Oxford) was a classical archaeologist who specialised in ancient Greek colonisation and the archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Caucasia, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1st millennium BC. He was the author of more than 250 books, edited volumes, chapters, articles, etc.; founder and series editor of the publication series Colloquia Pontica, now Colloquia Antiqua; and founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Ancient West and East. He organised many international conferences, congresses, etc., notably the International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities which he established in 1995. He died suddenly on 11 September 2022, aged 59.

 

Şahin Yıldırım graduated from the Classical Archaeology Department at Ankara University, where he also received his Master’s degree and Doctorate. He started his career in Edirne Archaeology and thnography Museum in 1998, serving as Museum Specialist and Deputy Museum Director. He has taught in the Department of Archaeology at Bartın University since 2016, He continues his archaeological excavations and research in many regions of Turkey, especially in the ancient cities of Sagalassos, Zeugma, Soloi-Pompeiopolis, Hadrianopolis (Edirne), Tios-Tieion and Satala.

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ISBN 13	9781803276205
ISBN 10	1803276207
Title	Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology
Author	Gocha R Tsetskhladze
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Archaeopress
Year published	2023-12-21
Number of pages	348
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