The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges

by Gabrielsen, Vincent; Lund, John

• ISBN13: 9788779342668
• ISBN10: 8779342663
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-30
• Publisher: Isd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Milesians in the Black Sea: Trade, Settlement and Religion	p. 9
Greek Archaic Orientalising Pottery from the Barbarian Sites of the Forest-steppe Zone of the Northern Black Sea Coastal Region	p. 23
Black Sea Grain for Athens? From Herodotus to Demosthenes	p. 39
Athenian Wheat-Tsars: Black Sea Grain and Elite Culture	p. 69
Timber as a Trade Resource of the Black Sea	p. 85
A Weighty Matter: Pontic Fish Amphorae	p. 101
The One That Got Away: A Reassessment of the Agoranomos Inscription from Chersonesos (VDI 1947.2, 245; NEPKh II, 129)	p. 123
Amphora Finds of the 4th Century BC from the Settlements of the Lower Dnieper Region	p. 133
Echanges d'amphores timbrees entre Sinope et la Mediterranee aux epoques classique et hellenistique	p. 143
Local Patterns of Trade in Wine and the Chronological Implications of Amphora Stamps	p. 149
Changes in Late Classical and Hellenistic Fine Pottery Production in the Eastern Mediterranean as Reflected by Imports in the Pontic Area	p. 161
The Circulation of Ceramic Fine Wares and Transport Amphorae from the Black Sea Region in the Mediterranean, c. 400 BC-AD 200	p. 183
The Unification of Pontos: The Bronze Coins of Mithridates VI Eupator as Evidence for Commerce in the Euxine	p. 195
Lighting Equipment of the Northern Pontic Area in the Roman and Late Roman Periods: Imports and Local Production	p. 209
Some Thoughts about the Black Sea and the Slave Trade before the Roman Domination (6th-1st Centuries BC)	p. 239
Contacts between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Black Sea in the Early Hellenistic Age	p. 253
Traders and Travelers in the Black and Aegean Seas	p. 273
Trade and Tribute: Byzantion and the Black Sea Straits	p. 287
Abbreviations	p. 325
Bibliography	p. 327
Indices	p. 375
Contributors	p. 395
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