Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology

Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Şahin Yıldırım, Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, Şahin Yıldırım

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9781803276212
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Greek Ancient History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction: Tios (Tieion) in the Context of Black Sea Colonisation*
• Tios in Ancient Geography and Cartography
• The Acropolis Temple of Tios (Tieion)
• The Lower City of Tios: Finds in the Firebrick Factory Area
• Coin Finds and a Partial Tetrarchic Coin Hoard from Tios (2015–16)*
• Remarks on the Indigenous People that Inhabited the Region around Tieion/Tios
• A First Consideration of Roman Traces in Paphlagonian Hadrianopolis according to the Data of 2018–2021
• Restitutori Bithynia et Paphlagonia: Chasing Hadrian in the North Anatolian Fault Zone. An Overview*
• The Phrygian Kingdom: A Local Power or a Regional State?*
• Some Thoughts on Coarse-Ware: Pottery of the Early Iron Age found in the Inönü Cave
• Revisiting the Rock-Cut Tunnels in the Black Sea Region of Turkey*
• Some Aspects of the Socio-Cultural Life of Roman Heraclea Pontica in the Light of the Epigraphic, Numismatic and Literary Evidence*
• Local Memory and Archaeological Surveys in Turkey’s Black Sea Region: The Case of St John Chrysostom’s Monastery in Bizeri near Comana Pontica*
• New Evidence about the Monumental Architecture in the Temenos of Apollonia Pontica in the Archaic and Classical Periods
• A Breakthrough of Archaic Greek Transport Amphorae within the Getic Hinterland: The Case of Beidaud
• Early Greek Pottery in the Context of Settlements and Burials: The Northern Black Sea Region*
• The House of Pythes, son of Pericles, in the North-Eastern Area of the Archaic Berezan Settlement
• Sindoi: Written Tradition and Archaeological Data*
• Tarasova Balka in the Trans-Kuban Region as a Nomadic Sanctuary
• New Material about an Old Archaeological Discovery: The First Mordvinovskii Barrow
• Classical-Period Greeks and Locals at Pichvnari, Eastern Black Sea Area
• List of Contributors