Connecting the Ancient West and East: Studies Presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (Monographs on Antiquity, 8)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
GOCHA TSETSKHLADZE, WEST AND EAST: WHY A
PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
THE WRITINGS OF GOCHA TSETSKHLADZE 1989–2022
BURIAL GROUNDS AT TIOS
THE ROMAN CULT OF EMPEROR WORSHIP: WAS THE ROMAN EMPEROR REVERED AS A GOD AMONGST CAUCASIAN IBERIANS?*
519 BC: PERSIANS OCCUPY THE NORTH PONTIC COAST*
BIOGRAPHY OF A COLLECTION OF PONTIC POTTERY IN THE NATIONAL MUSEUM, BELGRADE*
THE LAND OF THE SUN AND THE MOON: AN INTERPRETATION OF THE EMBLEM ON PONTIC ROYAL COINS*
ONE FORGOTTEN GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM THE ROSTOV REGION*
SALT ADMINISTRATION IN ROMAN DACIA: AN OVERVIEW*
A NEW STAMPED ROMAN AMPHORA FROM CIOROIU NOU
A GIFT FOR DEA SYRIA FROM MOUKAPORIS, SON OF DITOUKENTHOS
OUEINIA, BUREAU DE DOUANE ROMAINE DE LA PROVINCE D’ASIE, ET LES ROUTES DU MARBRE DE DOKIMEION*
A VIEW FROM THE FRINGE: HERACLEA PONTICA IN THE AGE OF ALEXANDER*
THE ARCHAIC NECROPOLIS OF MYRMEKION
LA PÉRIODE DE DÉBUT DU PRINCIPAT DANS LES VILLES GRECQUES OUEST-PONTIQUES À LA LUMIÈRE DES SOURCES LITTÉRAIRES ET ÉPIGRAPHIQUES
GREEK URBANISATION OF THE NORTH PONTIC REGION IN THE 6TH–EARLY 5TH CENTURIES BC
ACAMPSIS, BOAS, APSARUS, PETRA, SEBASTOPOLIS: RIVERS AND FORTS ON THE SOUTHERN LITTORAL OF COLCHIS*
AN ESSAY ON THE HISTORY OF APOLLONIA PONTICA TO THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PERIOD
L’ANNEAU DU ROI SKYLÈS: POUVOIR ET TERRITOIRE AU NORD-OUEST DE LA MER NOIRE
THE COINAGE OF TIOS IN BITHYNIA: LOCAL HISTORY, RELIGION AND CIVIC REPRESENTATION
GREEK COLONIES, A MIDDLE GROUND AND THE HINTERLAND IN SOUTH-EASTERN THRACE
PHRYGIAN TRACES IN GREEK EPIGRAPHY OF ROMAN ANATOLIA: SURVIVAL OR IDENTITY REVIVAL?*
DEFINING URBAN SPACE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND TOPOGRAPHY OF MTSKHETA
ACHAEMENID-PERIOD SERPENTINE VESSELS FROM OLUZ HÖYÜK (KRITALIA) AND HARŞENA FORTRESS (AMASYA), NORTH-CENTRAL ANATOLIA
NEW FINDS OF SWORDS OF MAEOTIAN AND SARMATIAN TYPES IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS
A
REPRESENTATION FROM THE ROMAN FORT AT RĂCARI, DOLJ COUNTY, ROUMANIA
VARKANA – THE COUNTRY OF WOLVES
GREEK-SINDIAN INTERACTIONS IN THE TERRITORY OF THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS IN THE 6TH–4TH CENTURIES BC*
CAN GORDION ROOF TILES HELP DATE THE MIDAS MONUMENT?
THE EARLIEST BRONZE METALLURGY ON THE GEORGIAN SIDE OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN BLACK SEA LITTORAL
TOMBES À BOUCLIER AU NORD ET À L’EST DE LA MER NOIRE À L’ÉPOQUE ROMAINE: ORIGINES
THE MOUTH OF THE TANAIS AND ITS ROLE IN COLCHIAN-SCYTHIAN TRADE IN THE 5TH–FIRST QUARTER OF THE 3RD CENTURY BC
SOME RARE COINS FROM THE VASILII ROZANOV COLLECTION
PHANAGORIA IN ARCHAIC TIMES
THE MAIN RESULTS OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS CONDUCTED AT THE FORT OF GONIO-APSARUS IN 2015
PAPHLAGONIANS AND PHRYGIANS
CITIES IN ROMAN GALATIA AND THE EMERGENCE OF URBANISM
SOME REMARKS ABOUT KONSULOVSKOE, A LESSER-KNOWN LATE SCYTHIAN HILLFORT ON THE LOWER DNIEPER
THE SINOP I SHIPWRECK: A BLACK SEA MERCHANT SHIP FROM THE ROMAN IMPERIAL ERA*
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS FROM THE NECROPOLIS OF APOLLONIA PONTICA
DOG NOT IMPORTANT, ONLY STAFF IMPORTANT!*
THE MAIN AGONISTIC FESTIVALS IN TAURIC CHERSONESUS
THE PRE-ACHAEMENID KINGDOM OF CAPPADOCIA AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF KERKENES DAĞ
GORGONS ON THE GO: AN ATHENIAN BLACK-FIGURE SKYPHOS FROM BEREZAN*
TOMBS AT RAVNOGOR RECONSIDERED
THE THRACIAN
ON THE ARCHAIC FORTIFICATIONS OF PORTHMION
BENDIS AGAIN
FORGOTTEN MONUMENTS OF THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS
ROUTE OF THE ‘PILGRIM’S ROAD’ IN NORTH-WESTERN ASIA MINOR: STATE OF THE ART AND NEW OBSERVATIONS
ROMAN COLCHIS, IBERIA AND ALANI: SOME NOTES AS
MIDAS’ GORDION UND DAS ÜBRIGE KLEINASIEN: ÜBERLANDROUTEN ALS INDIKATOREN FÜR KONNEKTIVITÄT*
RESULTS OF RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ARCHAIC TIEION
GREEK POTTERY OF THE 7TH–6TH CENTURIES BC ON BILSK FORTIFIED SETTLEMENT
STRONGHOLD ON THE ISTHMUS OF THE LIGHTHOUSE PENINSULA IN THE SYSTEM OF THE
OF CHERSONESUS
REVISITING A PHALERA FROM MOUND 20 IN NOIN ULA IN NORTHERN MONGOLIA: SOME ICONOGRAPHIC ASPECTS IN BACTRIAN ART
LUXURIOUS FUNERALS AND SUMPTUARY LAWS
GREEK HELIOS OR INDIAN SŪRYA? THE SPREAD OF THE SUN GOD IMAGERY FROM INDIA TO GANDHĀRA
GREEKS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS: FROM SIMILAR START TO ACCULTURATION
RITUAL PEBBLES: PEBBLES BETWEEN THE LIVING AND THE DEAD IN THE MEDITERRANEAN IRON AGE*
THE ERETRIAN LATE GEOMETRIC OINOCHOE ISTANBUL 1503
ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN CONFLICT IN ANCIENT EPIRUS
ALEXANDER JANNAEUS’ DEFENSIVE LINE AGAINST ANTIOCHUS XII DIONYSUS REVISITED ONCE AGAIN*
WANDERING SAMIANS IN THE WEST
CERAUNUS, CHRESTUS AND OTHERS: ‘DOUBLE-LAYER’ EPITHETS?*
THE EARLY PHASES OF CULT PLACE 2 IN ELEA-VELIA: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PALIMPSEST
ARE TWO GREAT KINGS TOO MANY? SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON PARTHIAN KINGSHIP IN THE CLASSICAL SOURCES
THE MEDIAN EMPIRE AND THE HIGHSTAND WATERS OF THE CASPIAN SEA
MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR: THE ROLE OF ISLANDS IN CONNECTING ANCIENT WEST AND EAST
DOWN IN THE DUMPS AT SELEUCID JEBEL KHALID ON THE EUPHRATES*
TIMBRES AMPHORIQUES RHODIENS D’ARCHANGELOS
APPLYING THE BEAZLEY METHOD TO MOSAIC ARTIST ATTRIBUTION
SELEUCIDS AS ‘GREAT KINGS’?
TWO MONOPHYSITE BISHOPS BETWEEN ROMAN WEST AND SASANIAN EAST
L’HOSPITALITÉ DE ZEUS, D’UN CÔTÉ À L’AUTRE DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE*
CRISIS, DIVINATION AND ‘KILLING’ POTTERY: ASTRAGALS AND PUNCTURED VESSELS FROM A CLASSICAL-PERIOD WELL AT SICILIAN NAXOS
HERACLES CELTICUS AND HERACLES SCYTHICUS: THE SAME NARRATIVE IN THE WEST AND THE EAST OF EUROPE?
HOW THE MEDITERRANEAN BECAME THE MEDITERRANEAN: SOME NEGLECTED PIECES OF EVIDENCE FOR THE HISTORY OF THE MENTAL MAPPING OF AN IN
ABOUT THE LOLLII OF BYZANTIUM
REPUBLICAN THEATRES OF ROME
HERODOTUS AND AMASIS’
IMPORTED BRONZE HAMMERED CAULDRONS FROM ASIAN SARMATIA*
MIGRATION – NOT COLONISATION: WHAT MOTIVATED PEOPLE TO LEAVE THEIR COMMUNITY ACCORDING TO THE TEXTS OF ARCHAIC GREECE
IV 556 =
182): A CASE OF ATHENIAN PROPAGANDA IN THE 4TH CENTURY BC?*
THE LOST INSCRIPTION OF ARGOS (
AND
IN INSCRIPTIONS FROM MACEDONIA
‘OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY’: AN ESSAY ON ANGLO-GEORGIAN RELATIONS
BETWEEN EAST AND WEST: MEMORIES OF THE COLD WAR
WHAT DO THEY KNOW OF LEARNING WHO ONLY UNIVERSITIES KNOW? SURVIVING THE DYSTOPIA OF AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY EDUCATION*
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
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