Greek Colonisation

Μ. Μπέσιος, Γ. Τζιφόπουλος & Α. Κοτσώνας (2012). Μεθώνη Πιερίας Ι: Επιγραφές, χαράγματα και εμπορικά σύμβολα στη γεωμετρική και αρχαϊκή κεραμική από το ‘Υπόγειο’. Θεσσαλονίκη: Κέντρο Ελληνικής Γλώσσας.

by Antonis Kotsonas

Site-classificatie in het Džarylgač Survey Project (noordwestelijke Krim, Oekraïne)

by Tymon de Haas

co-authored with Peter Attema, Christina Williamson and Wieke de Neef; In dutch, published in Paleoaktueel 21

Site classification in the Džarylgač Survey Project (northwestern Crimea, Ukraine)
This article is the third and... more Site classification in the Džarylgač Survey Project (northwestern Crimea, Ukraine)
This article is the third and final part of the series on the Džarylgač Survey Project (DSP), the landscape archaeology project in north-west Crimea that was conducted from 2006 to 2008 by the GIA and the Centre for Black Sea Studies (CBSS) at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. The objective of this project was to comprehend the wider agricultural colonisation of this area that took place in the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period. The first article (2008) gave an introduction to this research with preliminary results and the second (2009) discussed the landscape classification. This final article focuses on site classification based on the results of the survey in relation with the landscape classification, and according to the primary periods of activity in the Bronze Age, the Late Classical and Early Hellenistic period, and the Early Modern era. The types of sites range from settlements, small and large, simple or complex, and individual features either connected with settlements or in isolation. Such a classification of sites is a heuristic device which, when used with the landscape classification, helps to understand the varying use of the landscape and the balance between cultivation and pastoralism across the lowlands and the hillsides. Ultimately, however, the patterns observed here can only properly be interpreted when brought into relation with the wider study of northwestern Crimea – this will be the focus of the final publication.

Autonomous Coinage of Rhizon in Illyria

by Dubravka Ujes Morgan

L'Illyrie méridionale et l'Epire dans l'antiquité 4, Actes du 4e colloque international de Grenoble 2002, réunis par P. Cabanes et J.-L. Lamboley (Paris 2004), pp.149-168.

There are two main types of the autonomous coins of Rhizon in Illyria, both of which have the inscription PIZONITAN on... more There are two main types of the autonomous coins of Rhizon in Illyria, both of which have the inscription PIZONITAN on the reverse: the Post-Ballaios type, and the Apollo/Artemis type. The following analysis of the autonomous coinages of Rhizon is based on the information available from more than 100 specimens of both types. All these coins were discovered in Risan, as stray site-finds at Carine, the modern name of the site of the lower town of ancient Rhizon, except for one specimen of unknown provenance.

Greek hoards from the Western Balkans

by Dubravka Ujes Morgan

Numismatic Chronicle 51, 2001.
Section: Coin Hoards 2001, Ancient Hoards

Recently discovered or not widely known coin hoards from the Western Balkans. Recently discovered or not widely known coin hoards from the Western Balkans.

«Усадьба Басилидов» в окрестностях Херсонеса Таврического (результаты раскопок Херсонесской историко-археологической экспедиции Исторического факультета Московского государственного университета), ВДИ, 1998, № 1, 205-233, совместно с В.И. Кузищиным.

by Askold Ivantchik

совместно с В.И. Кузищиным

Die Gründung von Sinope und die Probleme der Anfangsetappe der griechischen Kolonisation des Schwarzmeergebietes, in: The Greek Colonization of the Black Sea: Historical Interpretation of Archaeology. Historia, Einzelschriften 121, Stuttgart, 1998, 297-330

by Askold Ivantchik

- « Le Maghreb colonial à l’aune de l’expérience grecque. Réflexions sur les notions d’altérité et de colonisation », Cahiers francophones d’Europe centre-orientale, 13, 2008, p. 79-99

by Alexandre Blaineau

Alle sorgenti del Cinyps

by Massimiliano Munzi

Co-authored with G. Cifani, published in "Libyan Studies", 34, 2003, pp. 85-100.

Rivers, land organization, and identity in Greek Western Apoikìai

by Flavia Frisone

forthcoming in Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol.27, No.1, June 2012, 84-112
The work is dedicated to the memory of the men, women and children who died in the flood of Giampilieri (Messina, 1 October 2009), innocent victims of neglect and indifference towards the earth, the rivers, the mountains,
killed not by the water and the mud but by speculation, misgovernment,
and by the loss of a knowledge that for centuries had taught men to treat torrents and country as part of themselves.

The  article looks at the so-called ‘archaic Greek colonization’, and at the connection of the settlements with... more The  article looks at the so-called ‘archaic Greek colonization’, and at the connection of the settlements with the territories they occupied, from the perspective of their relationship with water – the water of the sea, but mainly that of rivers and springs. The springs and, even more importantly, the rivers that traversed the places where the new Hellenic communities established themselves arguably offered an important referent for the definition, external as well as internal, of the new settlements and communities; the article shows that the creation of important connections with these landscape elements was conceived as a determinant part of the identity of these communities, denoting and connoting specific important aspects that have often been preserved by the tradition. The pragmatic and ideological aspects of the relationship with the landscape are examined with reference to the settlements established by the Greeks in Sicily and southern Italy between the eighth and the fifth centuries BCE. The analysis relies mainly on literary, historical sources, as, despite the historiographical and interpretive problems that this type of documentation raises, they offer a fairly consistent, if disjointed, panorama. The results of archaeological excavations and surveys are also taken into account: they confirm the picture inferred from the literary evidence and, when considered from a historical viewpoint, may in a number of instances explain the variety of strategies effectively brought into play by some of the cities of Sicily and southern Italy.
Keywords: Greek colonization; landscape; river; waterways; fluvial valleys

Alle sorgenti del Cynips

by Gabriele Cifani

co-authored with M. Munzi, in Libyan Studies 34, 2003, pp. 85-100.

This paper deals with the location of the springs of the river Cinyps (or Cynips) in Tripolitania, by comparing... more This paper deals with the location of the springs of the river Cinyps (or Cynips) in Tripolitania, by comparing literary sources with topographic and archaeological data provided by explorers and by geoarchaeological studies carried out by the University of Rome III mission in collaboration with the Department of Antiquities between 1998 and 2000.
Although the Cinyps may be identified with the drainage basin of Wadi Taraglat, some 80 km long,
its springs were located within a strip 3,6 km (20 stadia) from the coast in a reach known as Wadi Caam.
These were the springs that supplied the Hadrianic Baths of Lepcis Magna in all probability by means of the scheme put in place by Q. Servilius Candidus in AD 119-120.
Field reconnaissance and cartographic analysis rule out the presence of springs any further inland. The claim by Herodotus (IV, 175) that the springs of the Cynips were located near the Hill of the Graces 200 stadia (36 km) from the coast may thus be considered an error in the tradition handed down in the text.

Michael Vickers, Amiran Kakhidze, Pichvnari. Results of Excavations Conducted by the Joint British-Georgian Pichvnari Expedition. Vol. I. Pichvnari 1998-2002. Greeks and Colchians on the East Coast of the Black Sea. Oxford, Batumi, 2004, ACSS, 12, 2006, 339-340

by Askold Ivantchik

Rev.: Elias K. Petropoulos, Hellenic Colonization in Euxeinos Pontos. Penetration, Early Establishment and the Problem of the ‘Emporion’ Revisited. BAR International Series 1394. Oxford, 2005, ACSS, 12, 2006, 330-336

by Askold Ivantchik

Les légendes de fondation de Sinope du Pont, Revue des études anciennes, 99,1-2, 1997, 33-45.

by Askold Ivantchik

Defining domestic space at Euesperides, Cyrenaica: Archaic structures on the Sidi Abeid.

by David Gill

Co-authored with P. Flecks. In Building communities: house, settlement and society in the Aegean and beyond, edited by R. Westgate, N. Fisher, and J. Whitley, British School at Athens Studies, vol. 15: 205-11. London: British School at Athens, 2007.

Strategie territoriali ed esperienze sub-coloniali in Magna Grecia

by Flavia Frisone

published in M.Lombardo - F. Frisone (a cura di), Colonie di colonie: le fondazioni sub-coloniali greche tra colonizzazione e colonialismo. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi, Lecce, 22-24 Giugno 2006, Galatina (Congedo Editore) 2009, pp. 99-122.

Le lamentazioni dei Poseidoniati, (Aristox., fr. 124 Wehrli): culto eroico e memorie identitarie della comunità

by Flavia Frisone

published in M. Lombardo-C. Marangio (eds.), Antiquitas. Scritti di storia antica in onore di Salvatore Alesandrì, Galatina (Congedo Editore) 2011, pp.77-90

The pattern of Findspots of Coins of Damastion - the Clue to Its Location

by Dubravka Ujes Morgan

Proceedings of the XIVth International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow, 2009, ed. by Nicholas Holmes, Glasgow 2011, pp. 487-496.

The position of Damastion, a Greek colony founded by the fugitives from Aegina and Mende shortly after 420 BC... more The position of Damastion, a Greek colony founded by the fugitives from Aegina and Mende shortly after 420 BC somewhere in Illyria near the abundant silver mines (Strabo 7.7.8 and 8.6.16), has still not been established with certainty. An analysis of the pattern of findspots of coins of this town demonstrates a concentration in the area of the rich silver mines of southern Kosovo, indicating that Damastion should be sought somewhere in that region.

Valentino Nizzo, Lieve Donnellan, Contestualizzare la "prima Colonizzazione". Archeologia, fonti, cronologia e modelli interpretativi fra l'Italia e il Mediterraneo, in Forma Urbis XVII, 3, 2012, pp. 46-47

by Valentino Nizzo

Contextualising “early Colonisation”: Archaeology, Sources, Chronology and Interpretative Models between Italy and the Mediterranean. Rome June, 21-.23 2012
For the CFP of the congress please visit: http://www.academiabelgica.it.cloud.seeweb.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=229&Itemid=142&lang=it

The foundation of Agathopolis/Alaeouteichos and the Athenian Black Sea policy in the 5th century BC, In: Kacharava, D. et al. (eds.) 2005, Pont-Euxin et Polis, Actes du Xe Symposium de Vani, 167-180.

by Jan de Boer

Leontinoi

by Fausto Longo

Forthcoming in ROGER BAGNALL, KAI BRODERSEN, CRAIGE CHAMPION, ANDREW ERSKINE AND SABINE HUEBNER. Encyclopedia of Ancient History. WILEY-BLACKWELL, EDINBURGH