{"id":631,"date":"2026-03-12T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/?p=631"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:50:14","slug":"pontica-nr-56-supplementum-x-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/pontica-nr-56-supplementum-x-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pontica No. 56 Supplementum X (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-small-font-size has-custom-font-size wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/PONTICA-56-SUPPL-X-2023-web.pdf\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px\"><strong>DESCHIDE PONTICA NR. 56 SUPPL X &#8211; VARIANTA COMPLET\u0102 \u00ceN FORMAT .PDF<\/strong> (31 Mb)<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-1.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-1.pdf\">ALEXANDRU AVRAM<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Le milieu scientifique roumain et international a \u00e9t\u00e9 constern\u00e9 par la disparition du professeur Alexandru Avram, en ao\u00fbt 2021, sur le chantier d\u2019Istros, cet endroit si cher \u00e0 son c\u0153ur depuis 1977, lors de sa premi\u00e8re participation aux fouilles, en tant qu\u2019\u00e9tudiant. Model\u00e9 dans le cadre de l\u2019\u00e9cole arch\u00e9ologique roumaine, digne disciple du grand \u00e9pigraphiste D. M. Pippidi, Alexandru Avram a t\u00e9moign\u00e9 de sa valeur intellectuelle et scientifique dans plusieurs domaines de l\u2019histoire : l\u2019\u00e9pigraphie, l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie et l\u2019histoire des colonies grecques de la mer Noire ; l\u2019\u00e9pigraphie et l\u2019arch\u00e9ologie de l\u2019Asie Mineure ; \u00e9pigraphie phrygienne ; les timbres amphoriques grecs ; les accords de Rome avec les colonies hell\u00e9nistiques. Son activit\u00e9 scientifique et didactique s\u2019est d\u00e9roul\u00e9e \u00e9galement en Roumanie qu\u2019en France, en tant que chercheur \u00e0 l\u2019Institut d\u2019Arch\u00e9ologie \u201eVasile P\u00e2rvan\u201d de l\u2019Acad\u00e9mie Roumaine et professeur \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 de Bucarest et, ult\u00e9rieurement, \u00e0 l\u2019Universit\u00e9 du Mans. Il a ainsi soutenu, dans son domaine de comp\u00e9- tences, la connexion entre les sciences historiques roumaines et internationales.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-2.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-2.pdf\">DE NOUVEAU SUR LE K\u00c9RAMARQUE DES TIMBRES AMPHORIQUES THASIENS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The author discusses the title \u03ba\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 occurring on Thasian stamps under the magistrate Pythion I (c. 337 BC). The word \u03ba\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 being inserted in the stamps\u2019 legends between the producer\u2019s name (Anphikrates, Megakleides or Pylades) and the magistrate\u2019s name, it is difficult to decide to whom of them it refers. Contrary to the prevailing orthodoxy (even if sometimes rejected, e.g. B\u00f6rker 1998: 15\u201317; B\u00f6rker 2019: 79\u2013 80), the author argues that this title does not refer to the potter but to the magistrate. He briefly discusses the meaning of Greek compounds ending in -\u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2, &#8211; \u03b1\u03c1\u03c7\u03bf\u03c2 and admits that they refer to officials or quasi officials. On the other hand, all Pythion I\u2019s stamps use as device the famous Thasian parasemon (Heracles archer) occurring not only on several amphorae but also on silver coins of the same period; thus, we would expect through \u03ba\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 a reference to the magistrate rather than to the potter. Moreover, the main argument in the same direction is a stamp (note 16) where the producer\u2019s name stands in genitive; therefore, it cannot be related to the nominative \u03ba\u03b5\u03c1\u03b1\u03bc\u03ac\u03c1\u03c7\u03b7\u03c2 that follows.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Alexandru AVRAM<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-3.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-3.pdf\">WHAT ARE EIONES IN ANCIENT DESCRIPTIONS OF THE NORTHERN BLACK SEA COASTS?<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>This paper presents an analysis of the use of the word \u1f20\u03ca\u03ce\u03bd in Greek literature from Homer to Byzantine time. The author reviews the many meanings of the word in various contexts and sets out the most important meaning of this in relation to low-lying seacoasts, sandbanks and peninsulas of the northern Black Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Alexander V. PODOSSINOV<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-4.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-4.pdf\">HELLENISTIC THRACE: A POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The aim of this contribution is to present a synthetic but detailed exposition of the little historical evidence regarding the kingdoms of Hellenistic Thrace. The principal kingdoms attested in Thrace during the Hellenistic period are: the Celtic kingdom with capital at Tylis (Tyle), the Odrysian residual kingdom around Seuthopolis, the kingdom of Cabyle also probably related to the Odrysian, the principality of king Sadalas, the principality of Diegylis. The evidence concerning these kingdoms is very scanty. A special focus will be made on the most important epigraphical sources related to these events: the great Seuthopolis inscription, a fragmentary decree from Apollonia Pontica in which is mentioned Cotys, the Mesembrian decree for Sadalas that is an inscription whose date remains debatable. Also interesting are the relations in this period between Thrace and the most important Hellenistic kingdoms. Military campaigns were made in Thrace by the Seleucid kings, Antiochus II Theos and Antiochus III the Great. Also very intense was the military activity in Thrace of the Ptolemaic king Ptolemy III Evergetes. Later at the end of the third century BC the decline of the Ptolemaic kingdom under Ptolemy IV made possible an intervention policy of the Antigonid king Philip V in the area. Ample space will also be reserved to the analysis of the relations between Thracian kingdoms and the Hellenistic kingdom of Bithynia. Also in this case the evidence is quite small, but are really interesting the figures of Cavarus, king of the Celtic kingdom of Thrace, who acts as a mediator in the war between Prusias I and Byzantium and of Diegylis, Thracian chieftain who helps Prusias II in the civil war against his son Nicomedes II.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ferdinando FERRAIOLI<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-5.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-5.pdf\">COMPARING THE SOURCES OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE. THE SETTLEMENT AT NEO RYSIO (THESSALONIKI) ANDTHE MACEDONIAN EXPANSION TO THE EAST OF THE AXIOS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The purpose of this paper is twofold: one the one hand, it presents the results of a new systematic archaeological excavation that has been taking place since 2016 near the village of Neo Rysio, about 17 km south-southeast of Thessaloniki. The site, called \u201cTrapeza of Neo Rysio \u2013 Kardia\u201d, has until now yielded architectural remains and finds of several categories belonging to a settlement that was in use in Early Iron Age and the Archaic period. On the other hand, it attempts an approach to the well-known question of the time during which the regions to the East of the Axios River passed under Macedonian control. The reason for the latter is that the abandonment of the specific settlement, according to its finds so far, and the coming of the area under Macedonian control, according to the recent research, appear to have taken place in the same period.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Manolis MANOLEDAKIS<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-6.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-6.pdf\">EPIGRAPHIC UPDATES ON THE KARIAN MAGNATE OLYMPICHOS AND HIS TRANSACTIONS WITH LAODIKE, WIFE OF ANTIOCHOS HIERAX<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The Karian dynast Olympichos was formerly said to be of Alinda, though more likely hailed from Mylasa. He entered the historical stage by expelling Ptolemaic garrisons from Mylasa around 244 BC. He acted as an official of Seleukos II (246\u2013225), even though the king was distant and fighting to re-establish his own royal authority in Syria. Olympichos probably acknowledged Antiochos Hierax as king, when Seleukos ceded his brother the Anatolian territories in 242. As of 227, he began to cooperate with Antigonos Doson (229\u2013222), when this one took over Karia. Olympichos maintained his pre-eminence also under Philip V (222\u2013179). Soon after 220, we lose his traces in the historical record, except for a recently discovered inscription, which proves that he was still honoured in the later 2nd century BC. Besides his military and economic resources, his diplomatic skills permitted him to navigate smoothly between the demands of the (not always powerful) kings and queens on the one hand and the needs of the populace on the other. The purchase of estates from queen Laodike, the wife of Antiochos Hierax, probably around 242 and the grant of part of it to the sanctuary of Zeus Osogoa of Labraunda exemplify how he succeeded in establishing bonds of loyalty with the upper and lower levels.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Altay CO\u015eKUN<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-7.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-7.pdf\">NEW FINDINGS IN SCYTHIAN ANIMAL STYLE FROM OLBIA PONTICA<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>This contribution presents some new artifacts produced in the Scythian animal style together with a casting mold that were found at Olbia Pontica. The items were used mainly as a decoration of a horse bridle and the details of armament in the late Archaic \u2013 early Classical time. The stylistic peculiarities demonstrate the usual images of Scythian origin and a specific combination of Ionian artistic tradition. A question of artisans and customers that used these items is discussed. The authors join the scholars who suggest their common use as armament decorations both by Olbian residents and barbarians and defend a point of view that some of them could be produced in the polis\u2019 workshops by local, Ionian artists.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Alla BUISKIKH<\/strong><br><strong>Andrii IVCHENKO<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-8.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-8.pdf\">A LITTLE LIGHT GOES A LONG WAY \u2013THREE DECORATED ROMAN LAMPS FROM LABRAUNDA (MILAS, TURKEY)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>During recent excavation at Labraunda (Milas, Turkey) three fragmentary decorated lamps were discovered in two of the excavated sectors, East Bath and Water Pool. Although fragmentary, the lamps are among the few such finds on the site and thus far the only ones preserving decorations. Two of the pieces depict two different types of gladiators, while the third bears the head of Athena Promachos. Neither the types of lamps, nor the decorations are unique or uncommon in the Roman world, but they are for the site and its surroundings, raising a series of questions about the trade and use of lighting devices at Labraunda and its neighboring cities.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Alina STREINU<\/strong><br><strong>Marius STREINU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-9.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-9.pdf\">AN IVORY FINGER DISTAFF WITH THE TOP IN FORMOF A PINECONE DISCOVERED IN ISTROS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>A small ivory rod decorated with geometrical patterns was unearthed during older excavations at Istros and it was published in 1989 by R. Florescu and I. Miclea as an &#8222;ivory hand for scratching&#8221;. This paper aims to reassess the role of this object which fits into the category of instrumenta domestica being a specific type of distaff known as \u201cFingerkunkeln\u201d, \u201cring distaff\u201d or under the more common name of \u201cfinger distaff\u201d. On the basis of both the archaeological rich evidence of similar artefacts and the iconographic representations of such tools on the funerary reliefs in the ancient Roman world, it is hypothesised that finger distaffs were strongly connected in a symbolical way with spinning, being an indication of the high status and virtuosity of their owners, which were often buried with them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Alina IANCU<\/strong><br><strong>Corneliu BELDIMAN<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-10.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-10.pdf\">HISTRIA. NOUVELLES DONN\u00c9ES SUR LA N\u00c9CROPOLE TUMULAIRE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The partial results of the GIS application developed for the archaeological site Histria are presented as introduction. The application comprises also a spatial data base of the tumular necropolis that is surrounding the area around the Greek and Roman site. A complete excavation report (2015) concerning one of the tumuli, named N-1-413, is also presented. This tumulus was situated in the center of the northern area of the Histrian tumular necropolis and the excavation of this mound is presented in extenso. The determined type of cremation is bustum, very spread at this time (2nd \u2013 3rd c. AD) in Dobroudja, and the material discovered is typical for the tumuli with the same dating as those excavated in Histria and in the whole region.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Mircea Victor ANGELESCU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-11.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-11.pdf\">QUIDQUID ID EST, STUDEAS TITULIS ET DONO INSCRIPTIS: THE TROJAN HORSE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR EPIGRAPHICAL RESEARCH<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>There are many nagging questions in the field of Greco-Roman epigraphy. For perfectly good reasons, the question of what was written on the Trojan Horse is not, and never has been, one of them. While this may not be great loss in the academic pursuit of advancing actual historical knowledge, brief consideration, however, of this \u2013 admittedly seemingly absurd \u2013 question may prove to be of some interest in terms of our understanding of both Greco-Roman (!) epigraphic habits and cross-cultural translation(s).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Peter KRUSCHWITZ<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-12.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-12.pdf\">RETOUR SUR LE CONTR\u00d4LE DES COMP\u00c9TENCES DANS LES CIT\u00c9S GRECQUES<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Cet article reconsid\u00e8re les proc\u00e9dures de contr\u00f4le des comp\u00e9tences \u00e0 travers les exemples fournis par les missions diplomatiques, les m\u00e9decins, enseignants, artistes et architectes ; avec toutes les pr\u00e9cautions d&#8217;usage, il propose en outre une nouvelle interpr\u00e9tation pour le d\u00e9cret SIG 707<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Fran\u00e7ois LEF\u00c8VRE<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-13.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-13.pdf\">LES THIASITES DE CALLATIS. UN DOSSIER-CLEF ENTRE \u00c9PIGRAPHIE, ARCH\u00c9OLOGIE ET HISTOIRE DES RELIGIONS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The significance of this dossier of Callatian inscriptions is not limited to the long period over which we can follow this Dionysian association. The synthesis of what these documents reveal or suggest, in their contexts, opens up a series of reflections that allow us to open up our horizons, to go beyond the known and repeated patterns, to inflect our interpretative reflexes: whether it be on the masculine rituality of the trietericfestivals, on the Bacchic initiation practiced by and for men, on the inflection of a divine component, which passes from epiclesis to autonomous figure &#8211; yet under the patronage of a Dionysus bearing another epiclesis -, on the very varied referents that underlie the Bacchic caves, between ephemeral airiness and permanence and monumentality with funerary referential, on the sharing of civic ritual tasks with an association, the thiasites of Callatis represent a crucial dossier that stimulates and opens up the research horizon.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Anne-Fran\u00e7oise JACCOTTET<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-14.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-14.pdf\">DER OSTKARPATENRAUM VOM 3.\/2. JH. V. CHR.BIS ZUM 3.\/4. JH. N. CHR. ZWISCHEN ANTIKER TRADITION UND MODERNEN INTERPRETATIONEN: DIE ANTIKE TRADITION (EPIGRAPHISCHE QUELLEN)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Die Analyse und Katalogisierung r\u00f6mischer Importe aus dem Kreis Vaslui setzt entsprechend der von der Reihe Corpus der r\u00f6mischen Funde im europ\u00e4ischen Barbaricum (CRFB) vorgeschlagenen Methodik auch eine Neubewertung der antiken \u00dcberlieferung in Bezug auf den Ostkarpatenraum sowie der Entwicklung des modernen historiographischen Diskurses voraus. Dieser Aufsatz untersucht nur die epigraphischen Quellen anhand eines m\u00f6glichst vollst\u00e4ndigen Inschriftenkatalogs, der mehr oder weniger relevante Informationen \u00fcber die \u2018barbarischen\u2018 Bev\u00f6lkerungen im nordwestlichen Schwarzmeerraum zwischen dem 3.\/2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. und dem 3.\/4. Jahrhundert n. Chr. liefert. Eine solche Forschung erm\u00f6glicht ein besseres Verst\u00e4ndnis der Beziehungen der Bev\u00f6lkerungen \u00f6stlich der Karpaten mit der griechisch-r\u00f6mischen Welt bzw. der Wege der Durchdringung des arch\u00e4ologischen Materials, das in dieser Region an der Peripherie der Antike entdeckt und in das CRFB R 2-Corpus aufgenommen wurde.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Victor COJOCARU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-15.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-15.pdf\">\u00c0 LA RECHERCHE D\u2019H\u00c9ROTIMOS, FILS D\u2019H\u00c9ROTIMOS, LE M\u00c9SAMBRIEN DU PONT\u2013EUXIN<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The relief of the strategoi discovered in the Greek town of Mesambria on the west coast of the Euxeinos Pontos, IGBulg V 5103, has raised a number of questions. In this article, I take up the iconographic analysis of the scene in relation to the inscrip &#8211; tion engraved on the marble. I propose an identification of the ghostly figure, H\u00e9rotimos, also a strategos, mentioned in the inscription, but whose physical representation is missing. I put forward the hypothesis that he could be Heros Sosipolis, the dedicatee. The inscription on the relief could illustrate a decree discovered at Thasos, published by Jean Pouilloux in 1954, which stipulates that soldiers who died on the battlefield should be mentioned alongside the names of the polemarchs.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Maria ALEXANDRESCU VIANU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-16.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-16.pdf\">GESANDTSCHAFTEN VON GRIECHENST\u00c4DTEN AN STATTHALTER R\u00d6MISCHER PROVINZEN<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Der Aufsatz behandelt die seltenen F\u00e4lle von Gesandtschaften griechischer St\u00e4dte an Statthalter anderer Provinzen als der eigenen. Betroffen sind die Statthalter der Provinzen Niedermoesien und Thrakien, bzw. St\u00e4dte in der Provinz Pontus et Bithynia wie Byzantion, Herakleia Pontike und Kyzikos.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ligia RUSCU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-17.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-17.pdf\">GREEK GRAFFITI IN VERSE FROMOLBIA PONTICA AND BEREZAN ISLAND (6th\u20135th CENTURIES BC)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Olbia Pontica, together with slightly remote Berezan island settlement, is an unique city in the ancient Greek world: there are nearly 33 graffiti written in verse on table pottery (mainly shards) from the 6th\u20132nd centuries BC, which is a lager quantity than Athens has. Among them 26 inscriptions pertain to the 6th\u20135th centuries, and 7 other to the Hellenistic time. The used poetic meters are: 9 hexameters, 7 ionics, 3 paeans, one by one bacchius, iambic trimeter, trochaic tetrameter, dactylic tetrameter. The Olbians have strongly loved great poet Homer and his poems, owing to it the hexameter was prevailing. The themes of the verses are different, amongst them prevailing the drinking and love motifs \u2013 12 graffiti, half of the total quantity. Among the other content types there are 3 comic verses, 2 theatre and choric actions, one by one dedicatory, sacral, obscene, gift inscriptions. The most important of all the ancient Greek written in verse graffiti is hymn of the 6th century to the sacral Olbian zone Hylaea and its gods, which includes 12 hexameter lines.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Valery P. YAILENKO<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-18.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-18.pdf\">UNE KYLIX DU Ve s. av. J.-C. AVEC MULTIPLES GRAFFITI. LE PLUS ANCIEN DOCUMENT \u00c9PIGRAPHIQUE \u00c0 TOMIS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em><em>Dans l\u2019abondant mobilier recueilli en 2017\u20132018 sur la p\u00e9ninsule de Constan\u0163a, l\u2019antique Tomis, ont r\u00e9cemment \u00e9t\u00e9 reconnus quelques fragments inscrits appartenant au m\u00eame vase ; il s\u2019agit d\u2019une kylix (or coupe-skyphos) \u00e0 figures noires du groupe stylistique de Haimon, datable de 490\u2013470 av. J.-C. Diverses parties du vase sont occup\u00e9es par graffiti distincts. Ces graffiti varient par leurs contenus et comportent des informations utiles sur le vase-m\u00eame aussi bien que sur ses manipulateurs, que ce soit le commer\u00e7ant et le propri\u00e9taire, ou d\u2019autres. Ils montrent donc une situation tr\u00e8s rare et apportent de nouvelles donn\u00e9es sur la distribution des vases attiques \u00e0 Tomis et aussi sur la communaut\u00e9 grecque locale \u00e0 une \u00e9poque pr\u00e9coce de son existence.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Vasilica LUNGU<\/strong><br><strong>Aurel MOTOTOLEA<\/strong><br><strong>Tiberiu POT\u00c2RNICHE<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-19.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-19.pdf\">DEATH DURING THE GRAPE HARVESTAN EARLY CLASSICAL GRAVE STELE FROM SINOPE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>This article focuses on an early Classical grave stele in the Sinop Archaeological Museum since 2013. The monument features a partially preserved figured scene in low relief and an inscription. The scene represents a seated figure interacting with a standing companion. The inscription records the passing of Mitris, the only son of Myndies, who died \u2018unfairly\u2019 during the grape harvest season. This temporal reference hints at the importance of viniculture in the socio-economic life of Sinope. Not only is this stele a valuable addition to the corpus of funerary monuments from Sinope, it also contributes to a broader discussion on the ambiguity of inscriptions and figured scenes on grave monuments.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>L\u00e2tife SUMMERER<br>Perikles CHRISTODOULOU<br>&#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-20.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-20.pdf\">GRAIN AND MERCENARIES.A REAPPRAISAL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARKADIA AND BOSPOROS IN THE TIME OF LEUKON I<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Four inscriptions dating from the 4th century BC, found in Pantikapaion, Phanagoria, and Olbia, represent a small corpus attesting to the existence of contacts between Arkadia and the Greek cities on the North Pontic coast. The one found in Pantikapaion in 1829 \u2013 a fragmentary honorary decree of the Arkadians for Leukon I \u2013 was amply discussed in modern literature, whereas the others were only briefly examined in relation to it. Two main conflicting interpretations were advanced: either one or more bands of Arkadian mercenaries served Leukon I and honored him by erecting the inscription from Pantikapaion, or the Arkadian League that functioned in the 360s BC developed political and commercial ties with the Bosporan Kingdom and Olbia, probably centred on obtaining better conditions for the grain trade, which might explain the enactment of the honorary decree. A few additional epigraphic and historical remarks included in the present paper support the mercenary hypothesis. However, the wider perspective on the recruitment of foreign troops in the 4th century BC shows that the military ties between Bosporos and Arkadia could have been doubled by commercial ones, too.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Liviu Mihail IANCU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-21.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-21.pdf\">POS\u00c9IDON H\u00c9LIKONIOS \u00c0 TOMIS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>La nouvelle d\u00e9couverte \u00e0 Tomis de quatre st\u00e8les avec d\u00e9dicaces par les pr\u00eatres de Pos\u00e9idon H\u00e9likonios mettre en discussion le dossier de t\u00e9moignages du culte du dieu. Les quatre st\u00e8les datent du IIIe si\u00e8cle av. J.-C. L\u2019article pr\u00e9sente les nouvelles inscriptions et discute les noms des pr\u00eatres, d\u2019autres attestations de Pos\u00e9idon \u00e0 Tomis, les sommes d\u00e9di\u00e9es et la place de Pos\u00e9idon dans le panth\u00e9on tomitain. Tout cela montre l&#8217;importance du culte du dieu dans l&#8217;ancienne ville grecque, dont la vocation maritime et commerciale est r\u00e9put\u00e9e.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Livia BUZOIANU<\/strong><br><strong>Drago\u0219 H\u0102LMAGI<\/strong><br><strong>Aurel MOTOTOLEA<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-22.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-22.pdf\">\u201cUNCUT\u201d INSCRIBED LEAD SLING BULLETS FROM A \u201cBUNCH\u201d OF A CAST FROM THE ISLAND OF AIGILIA (ANTIKYTHERA)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>I had known Alexandru since he visited Athens back in 1997 and since then we had had a close friendship that was not limited only to the scientific field, but also to general discussions over a glass of beer or wine. In 2003 with Alexandru we arranged to visit our excavation in Antikythera, where a large number of inscribed lead sling bullets had been found, one of his favorite topics he had been studying for many years. However, due to the bad weather, the ship did not enter the port and his visit was postponed. The collaboration with him expanded further, when we invited him to contribute to the study of the stamped handles found on the island of Chios, where I had worked for many years. My colleague Gelly Fragou undertook the study of the stamped handles from Chios for her doctoral thesis, with Alexandru as her supervisor. The first result is the article published in the Bulletin of the Romanian Archaeological Institute in Athens 2(2020=2022). The following article has to do with Alexandru\u2019s interests in the inscribed sling bullets and it is a small offer to the memory of my friend who unfortunately will no longer see the place, where many and various inscribed sling bullets were found.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Aris TSARAVOPOULOS<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-23.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-23.pdf\">GOLD GOBLET WITH A GREEK INSCRIPTION FROM MIGULINSKAYA ON THE DON. NEW OBSERVATIONS<br><\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The article is devoted to a golden goblet with a Greek inscription from a destroyed burial near the Cossack village of Migulinskaya on the Don. The analysis showed that it was made no earlier than the second quarter of the 1st and hardly later than the beginning of the 2nd century AD in the Cimmerian Bosporus by a craftsman with the Thracian name Tarula for the Sarmatian customer Xebanokos. As a system in which the weight of the goblet was indicated, that of gold Bosporan staters, originally oriented to the standards of the Roman aurei, could have been used. There is every reason to believe that the \u201c48 gold\u201d of the inscription are precisely the weight of the gold used to make the goblet, and not the cost of it. The features of the inscription that we revealed (the presence of a draft incised before applying the punched inscription) give reason to assume that the inscription was incised by a person who knew Greek, and the craftsmen of the goblet, who did not know Greek, probably punched the inscription in his presence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Mikhail TREISTER<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-24.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-24.pdf\">O\u1f50\u03b4\u03b5\u1f76\u03c2 \u1f00\u03b8\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2: SEVEN FUNERARY STELES FROMANTIOCH ON THE ORONTES IN THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF ADANA (SOUTHERN TURKEY)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Seven unpublished funerary steles from Antioch on the Orontes (Northern Syria) inscribed in Greek between the 1st cent. BC and the 3rd cent. AD are presented and commented, with attention paid to their style, to their typology and to onomastics. These seven examples from Adana increase the Antiochean funerary steles known to date. They offer an insight on the social, cultural, economic and artistic background of this major Graeco-Roman city of the Near East.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Erg\u00fcn LAFLI<\/strong><br><strong>Hadrien BRU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-25.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-25.pdf\">LA STATIO TIBISCENSISDU PUBLICUM PORTORII ILLYRICI<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>L\u2019article traite de trois inscriptions fragmentaires de Tibiscum trouv\u00e9es dans la collection du mus\u00e9e de Caransebe\u0219. Ces inscriptions attestent l\u2019existence d&#8217;une statio publici portorii (Illyrici utriusque et ripae Thracicae) \u00e0 Tibiscum. Deux d&#8217;entre elles mentionnent le nom de T. Iulius Saturninus en tant que conductor publici portorii et sont ant\u00e9rieures \u00e0 la r\u00e9forme douani\u00e8re de 175\/177. La troisi\u00e8me inscription, r\u00e9utilis\u00e9e \u00e0 la porta praetoria du camp et contenant le nom d&#8217;un procurator, est post\u00e9rieure \u00e0 la r\u00e9forme.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Ioan PISO<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-26.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-26.pdf\">CONCERNANT L&#8217;INSRIPTION CIL III 8297 DARDANIE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>L\u2019article reprend l\u2019inscription CIL III 8297 d\u2019un sarcophage de Municipium Dardanorum (en M\u00e9sie sup\u00e9rieure). On offre une lecture pour les lignes 1 et 2, fortement endommag\u00e9es, en restituant le nom et l\u2019\u00e2ge de la femme d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9e, l\u2019\u00e9pouse d\u2019un d\u00e9curion municipal. Elle est originaire de Faventia (Italie). Le monument doit dater de l\u2019\u00e2ge des S\u00e9v\u00e8res.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Radu ARDEVAN<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-27.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-27.pdf\">ATTIVS PVDENS,LEGATVS LEGIONIS I ITALICAE GORDIANAE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Une inscription grav\u00e9e sur deux tablettes de bronze, r\u00e9cemment publi\u00e9e (voir infra, note 1), contient la preuve de l\u2019honesta missio d\u2019un v\u00e9t\u00e9ran de la flotte militaire du Danube (classis Flavia Moesica). Le document a \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9mis, le 25 f\u00e9vrier 241 apr\u00e8s J.-C., par Attius Pudens, legatus legionis I Italicae Gordianae, a(gens) v(ice) p(raesidis) ; la mention finale montre qu\u2019il assurait temporairement le gouvernement de la M\u00e9sie Inf\u00e9rieure.L\u2019auteur de cette note observe qu\u2019en 240 il y eut une r\u00e9volte du gouverneur de la province de M\u00e9sie Inf\u00e9rieure contre l\u2019empereur Gordien III ; apr\u00e8s l\u2019\u00e9limination de l\u2019usurpateur (dont le nom appara\u00eet martel\u00e9, dans cinq inscriptions de M\u00e9sie Inf\u00e9rieure ; voir PIR2, P 193), l\u2019empereur chargea le l\u00e9gat de la l\u00e9gion I Italica (dont le si\u00e8ge \u00e9tait \u00e0 Novae \u2013 aujourd\u2019hui \u0160i\u0161tov, en Bulgarie) du gouvernement int\u00e9rimaire de la province.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Constantin C. PETOLESCU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-28.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-28.pdf\">ZEEST&#8217;S \u201eSAMIAN\u201d AND \u201ePROTOTHASIAN\u201d TRANSPORT AMPHORAS: NORTH-IONIAN HOMELAND VS.\u201eTHASIAN CIRCLE\u201d PRELIMINARY LAB. RESULTS<br><\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Mostly reattributed to the North-Ionian sphere by lab results, finds of Zeest\u2019s \u201cSamian\u201d &amp; \u201cProtothasian\u201damphoras from the Black-Sea area still have to be differenciated from their counterparts from the Northern Aegean<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Pierre DUPONT<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-29.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-29.pdf\">CHIAN WINE AND OTHER CHIAN PRODUCTS IN ANCIENT GREEK AND ROMAN LITERATURE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The island of Chios produced a number of goodies, among which the famous wine and olive oil. Other products were the masticha and cheese that were exported to the Mediterranean markets. Some of these are documented in ancient Greek and Roman literature, providing evidence about their circulation too. Certain relationships throughout the years explain the intense trade that seems to have existed.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Gelly FRAGOU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-30.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-30.pdf\">DU VIN DE L\u2019\u00c9G\u00c9E SEPTENTRIONALE POUR LES ROIS D\u2019AMATHONTE<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The paper focuses on the Greeks classical amphorae from the north Aegean region, found during the excavations of the French archaeological mission in the palace of the ancient Amathus. They are dated from the 5th to the 4th century BC and they have been used as contain wines of Thasos, Mende and Akanthos. The evidence obtained from the amphorae\u2019s stamped handles is helpful for the chronology of the last phase of theclassical palace and for tracing commercial relationship of Amathus Kings with the Thrace and the Kingdom of Macedonian.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Antigone MARANGOU<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-31.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-31.pdf\">ATELIERS DE POTERIE ET \u00c9PONYMES AMPHORIQUES \u00c0 THASOS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The author makes a quick assessment of amphora-workshops excavated in Thasos since 1978, specially the last ones, Sotiras (explored by Al. Avram) and Limenaria. He gives then a chronological list of all recent magistrates (one name only), each one with the various types found in the workshops. Finally, he tries to determine the number of workshops which were active every year, and to draw an evolution curve, most names exceeding 30 types between ca. 315 and ca. 280 BC. Alphabetic attributes allow us to reckon how many types remain to uncover. So, we must now search for other workshops, including on the Thracian continent, in the Thasian Perea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Michel DEBIDOUR<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-32.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-32.pdf\">NEW NAMES ASSOCIATIONS IN STAMPS ON AMPHORAE OF RHODOS DATED BACK TO THE 3RD\u20132ND CENTURIES BCFROM THE KRASNODAR MUSEUM COLLECTION<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The article deals with stamped Rhodian containers of the 3rd\u20132nd centuries BC from the excavations of ancient monuments of Kuban region. The main part of the amphorae comes from burials in which other imports were also contained: black-glazed or red-glazed vessels, relief bowls, etc. In addition, individual vessels with stamps are also presented. The existing stamps demonstrate new combinations of names of eponyms and fabricants. Of particular importance are vessels with stamps, in which names previously attributed to other chronological periods are found. The main purpose of the article is to introduce a new very significant source layer into scientific circulation and enable specialists to work with this material.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>S.Yu. MONAKHOV<\/strong><br><strong>E.V. KUZNETSOVA<br><\/strong>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-33.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-33.pdf\">A FEW REMARKS ON THE PLACE OF \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039c\u039f\u03a3 \u0394\u0395\u03a5\u03a4\u0395\u03a1\u039f\u03a3 IN THE RHODIAN CALENDAR<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The aim of this contribution is to discuss the place of the intercalary month, \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039c\u039f\u03a3 \u0394\u0395\u03a5\u03a4\u0395\u03a1\u039f\u03a3, in the Rhodian calendar. Since the appearance of Nathan Badoud\u2019s monograph on the chronology of the Rhodian inscriptions in 2015, scholars have accepted his suggestion that \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039c\u039f\u03a3 \u0394\u0395\u03a5\u03a4\u0395\u03a1\u039f\u03a3 followed immediately after \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039c\u039f\u03a3. It is, however, argued in the present paper that the evidence provided by the months named on the amphora stamps and the dies identified by Gonca Cankarde\u015f-\u015eenol (2015a-b, 2016, 2017) &#8211; in conjunction with a new interpretation of an inscription from the Mylonas property in Rhodes first published in 2008 \u2013 indicates that \u03a0\u0391\u039d\u0391\u039c\u039f\u03a3 \u0394\u0395\u03a5\u03a4\u0395\u03a1\u039f\u03a3 came after \u0398\u0395\u03a3\u039c\u039f\u03a6\u039f\u03a1\u0399\u039f\u03a3 and that the latter was the first month in the Rhodian eponymic calendar, as was commonly believed before Badoud published his magnum opus in 2015.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>John LUND<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-34.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-34.pdf\">QUELQUES RARET\u00c9S AMPHORIQUES ISTRIENNES<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>L\u2019article publie 14 timbres amphoriques provenant de centres mineurs de production : M\u00e9sambria, Myrsileia, Abydos, Troade, Ainos, \u00c9rythr\u00e9es, Smyrne, \u00c9ph\u00e8se, Cassandreia, Brindisi.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Thibaut CASTELLI<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-35.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-35.pdf\">AMPHORA STAMPS FROM THE EXCAVATIONS AT CAPE SHABLA IN THE PERIOD 2016\u20132021<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>In the period 2016\u20132021, during the excavations at Cape Shabla, 26 amphora stamps were found: 7 Herakleian, 2 from the `Herakleian circle`, 3 Sinopian, 6 Thasian, 4 Rhodian, 1 Parian, 1 from the Parmeniskos group and 2 from unidentified centres of production. Together with the 8 already published and 14 unpublished examples, the number of amphora stamps found at Cape Shabla reaches 48. To them could be added one Sinopian rooftile stamp.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Kalin MADZHAROV<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-36.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-36.pdf\">PUNISCHE IMPORTE AUS DEM GEBIET DES BOSPORANISCHEN REICHES. ZU DEN HANDELSAKTIVIT\u00c4TENKARTHAGOS IM N\u00d6RDLICHEN SCHWARZMEERRAUM W\u00c4HREND DER HELLENISTISCHEN ZEIT<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>In dem Artikel werden neben den bereits bekannten Materialien neue arch\u00e4ologische Funde aus dem n\u00f6rdlichen Schwarzmeerraum pr\u00e4sentiert und analysiert. Als Zeugnisse der Kontakte zum westlichen Mittelmeerraum dienen vor allem punische Amphoren, die sich bereits von der archaischen (Berezan) \u00fcber die klassische (Elizavetovka) bis hin in die hellenistische Zeit (Olbia, Chersones) in der pontischen Region vorkommen. Besonderes Interesse gilt dabei den drei f\u00fcr das nordpontische Gestade einzigartigen Stempeln vom Territorim des Bosporanischen K\u00f6nigreiches: Kreuz im Kreis (Nymphaion), einfacher Kreis (Nymphaion) und das Symbol der G\u00f6ttin Tanit (Siedlung Vyshesteblitskaya\u20133). Analogien aus dem westlichen Mittelmeerraum erlauben es, diese St\u00fccke in die erste H\u00e4lfte des 2. Jhs. v. Chr. zu datieren. Es wird die Meinung vertreten, dass punische Amphoren indirekt als Begleitladung auf den Handelsschiffen aus der \u00c4g\u00e4is in die Region kamen. Neben den Amphoren sind zahlreiche Funde von Glasperlen, darunter Gesichtsperlen, die als Apothrop\u00e4en dienten, zu verzeichnen. Diese konnten auch in den Amphoren bef\u00f6rdert werden.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Nikolai JEFREMOW<\/strong><br><strong>Andrei \u041a\u041eLESNIKOV<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-37.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-37.pdf\">A STAMPED ROMAN AMPHORA SIGNED BY \u0395\u03a6\u0397\u0392\u039f\u03a3 DISCOVERED AT CIOROIU NOU (DOLJ COUNTY)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>This paper presents an analysis of the use of the word \u1f20\u03ca\u03ce\u03bd in Greek literature from Homer to Byzantine time. The author reviews the many meanings of the word in various contexts and sets out the most important meaning of this in relation to low-lying seacoasts, sandbanks and peninsulas of the northern Black Sea.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Dorel BONDOC<\/strong><br><strong>Gabriela FILIP<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-38.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-38.pdf\">SOME THOUGHTS ON THE PRODUCTION, DISTRIBUTION, AND CONSUMPTION OF WINE, OLIVE OIL, AND FISH PRODUCTS IN THE PONTIC AND LOWER DANUBE AREAS (1st\u20136th C. AD)<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>The author, based on the analysis of the amphorae that carried wine, olive oil and fish products, makes a brief review of the main trade currents in the Pont area. Based on this analysis, the author observes a certain differentiation between the western and northern, eastern and southern Pontic areas, especially in terms of olive oil supply. If it was fairly evenly distributed throughout the Pontic space in the early Roman era, from the 4th century it continues to be distributed mainly in the military provinces from the Lower Danube through the service of the annona, while the rest of the Pontic space received small amounts of olive oil through free trade. Apart from the military, a big consumer of olive oil was probably the new capital, Constantinople. Vintage wine and fish products have always been distributed through free trade. The author identifies a south &#8211; north commercial axis that reached Viminacium, which operated from the 1st century to the beginning of the 7th century.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Andrei OPAI\u021a<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-39.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-39.pdf\">ABOUT SOME LATE LYSIMACHUS TYPE STATERS FROM CALLATIS AND TOMIS<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>Our aim is to bring a modest contribution through the information gathered to the knowledge and completion of data regarding some treasure discoveries in Transylvania and Dobruja. Three late staters of the Lysimachos-type minted at Callatis (1 pcs.) and Tomis (2 pcs.) are shown. They are coins minted in diminished Attic standard, which were intended to pay for the recruitment of mercenaries for the military purposes of Mithridates VI Eupator in the war waged against the Roman Republic. The Callatis stater comes from the discoveries in the Sarmizegetusa Regia area in the Or\u0103\u0219tiei Mountains (Transylvania), and the two Tomis staters were found in the Schitu-Costine\u0219ti area (Dobruja), although there are many circumstances that would indicate their belonging to the hoard discovered in 1992 in Cump\u0103na (Constan\u021ba county). Given their occurrence in contexts impossible to control due to their fortuitous character, whether older or newer, these staters are possible small parts of fabulous hoards. Of course, there always remains an inevitable note of probability, inherent in the situation of such discoveries. But the coins are very important for knowing the monetary situation in Transylvania (before the imposition of the Roman Empire) and in the territory between the Danube and the Sea, in a period when the West-Pontic colonies were located on the &#8222;frontier&#8221; of the conflicts between the Kingdom of Pontus and the Roman Republic.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Gabriel Mircea TALMA\u021aCHI<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-40.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-40.pdf\">PONTIC BRONZE MITHRADATIC OVERSTRIKES: A CATALOGUE AND A SCENARIO<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>This paper gathers and discusses the 28 recorded cases of overstrikes for Pontic bronze coins. The most attested case is for the type \u201cAegis\/Nike\u201d overstriking the type \u201cAres\/sword\u201d. It may well be that the value of the type \u201cAegis\/Nike\u201d was superior to the tetrachalkoi generally attributed to the type \u201cAres\/sword\u201d. As the type \u201cAegis\/Nike\u201d has been produced in truly gigantic quantities (several hundres of obverse dies), it is not unlikely that these bronze coins supposed to have served for paying garrisons have played a significant role in the war economy of the last Pontic king.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Fran\u00e7ois de CALLATA\u0178<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-41.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-41.pdf\">L&#8217;IMPACT DES RAIDS BARBARES SUR LA CIRCULATION MON\u00c9TAIRE EN DOBROUDJA (M\u00c9SIE INF\u00c9RIEURE)AUX Ier\u2013IIIe SI\u00c8CLES<\/a><\/summary>\n<p><em>L&#8217;auteur passe en revue des \u00e9tudes numismatiques qui ont abord\u00e9 le probl\u00e8me des invasions barbares aux Ie\u2013IIIe si\u00e8cles et analyse les tr\u00e9sors mon\u00e9taires qui se sont constitu\u00e9es en ces temps troubl\u00e9s en Dobroudja. Le mat\u00e9riel dont on dispose comprend plus de 70 tr\u00e9sors et d\u00e9p\u00f4ts mon\u00e9taires et plus de 4000 pi\u00e8ces d\u00e9couvertes isol\u00e9es en 154 endroits.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Gabriel CUSTUREA<\/strong><br>&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-42-sumar.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pontica-56-suppl-x-42-sumar.pdf\">SUMAR<\/a><br>&#8211;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le milieu scientifique roumain et international a \u00e9t\u00e9 constern\u00e9 par la disparition du professeur Alexandru Avram, en ao\u00fbt 2021, sur le chantier d\u2019Istros, cet endroit si cher \u00e0 son c\u0153ur depuis 1977, lors de sa premi\u00e8re participation aux fouilles, en tant qu\u2019\u00e9tudiant. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[247,261,246,322,317,251,290,256,321,302,303,259,272,271,289,313,297,282,252,330,314,319,335,331,280,283,328,258,308,245,287,296,274,323,304,270,305,294,278,268,248,293,253,318,311,32,286,178,275,262,244,315,291,273,301,299,326,300,292,334,329,250,309,254,266,325,267,310,175,333,72,307,320,316,312,265,306,269,263,255,295,277,187,288,281,276,176,264,260,249,257,63,324,332,285,284,279,298,327],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supplementum","tag-achilles-dromos","tag-alinda","tag-amphora-stamps","tag-amphora-workshops","tag-amphorae","tag-ancient-etymologies","tag-ancient-greek-graffiti","tag-ancient-macedonia","tag-annona","tag-antikythera","tag-antioch-on-the-orontes","tag-archaic-period","tag-asia-minor","tag-athena-promachos","tag-berezan","tag-black-glazed-pottery","tag-bosporan-kingdom","tag-bronze-plate","tag-cabyle","tag-callatis","tag-cape-shabla","tag-chersonesos","tag-circulation-monetaire","tag-coin-overstrikes","tag-cremation","tag-dionysos","tag-dobruja","tag-early-iron-age","tag-epigraphy","tag-ergasteriarches","tag-euxeinos-pontos","tag-figures-noires","tag-finger-distaff","tag-fish-product","tag-funerary-steles","tag-gladiators","tag-gold-vessels","tag-grave-reliefs","tag-greco-roman-epigraphy","tag-greek-barbarian-relations","tag-greek-literature","tag-haimon","tag-hellenism","tag-hellenistic","tag-hellenistic-period","tag-histria","tag-iconography","tag-istros","tag-ivory","tag-karia","tag-keramarches","tag-kuban-region","tag-kylix-attique","tag-labraunda","tag-laconia","tag-leukon-i","tag-lysimachos","tag-mercenaries","tag-mesambria","tag-mesia-inferioara","tag-mithridates-eupator","tag-north-black-sea","tag-northern-syria","tag-odrysian","tag-olbia-pontica","tag-olive-oil","tag-olympichos","tag-onomastics","tag-pantikapaion","tag-pontic-chronology","tag-pontus","tag-ptolemaic-fleet","tag-rhodian-amphorae","tag-rhodian-calendar","tag-roman-imperial-period","tag-roman-lamps","tag-sarmatians","tag-scythian-animal-style","tag-seleukos-ii","tag-seuthopolis","tag-sinope","tag-spinning","tag-stater","tag-strategoi","tag-telete","tag-textiles","tag-thasos","tag-thermaic-gulf","tag-thessaloniki","tag-thrace","tag-thracians","tag-tomis","tag-trade","tag-transylvania","tag-trieteric-festivals","tag-trojan-horse","tag-tumular-necropolis","tag-viniculture","tag-wine-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapontica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}