Peoples in the Black Sea Region from the Archaic to the Roman Period Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity Held in Thessaloniki, 21-23 September 2018

Introduction ; North Black Sea ; Greeks and non-Greeks in the BCOSPE Project – Victor Cojocaru and Lavinia Grumeza ; Olbian Style Bronze Mirrors with Zoomorphic Handles from Mingachevir – Zaur Hasanov ; Chronology of the Early Scythian Sites in the Lower Don Region – M.Yu. Rusakov and A.A. Rusakova ; Greeks and non-Greeks in Contact: Commercial and Epigraphical Practices According to the Lead and Ostracon Letters from the Northern Black Sea – Madalina Dana ; ‘Barbarian’ Peoples of the Northern Black Sea Region on the Tabula Peutingeriana versus Literary Tradition – Alexander V. Podossinov ; South Black Sea ; ‘Barbarians’ in the Southern Black Sea: The Extreme Case of the Mossynoikoi – Manolis Manoledakis ; Roman Soldiers in Sinope – Lâtife Summerer and Perikles Christodoulou ; West Black Sea ; Quantitative Approaches to Epigraphy: Epigraphic Production in Thrace as a Mirror of Social Organisation – Petra Janouchová (Heřmánková) ; Aegyptiaca Pontica: Old and New Evidence from the West Pontic Coast – Mila Chacheva ; Consumers of Attic Pottery in the Western Black Sea Region – Despoina Tsiafaki and Amalia Avramidou ; Inconspicuous Presence? Macedonians on the West Pontic Coast in the Early Hellenistic Period – Margarit Damyanov, Emil Nankov and Daniela Stoyanova ; East Black Sea ; ‘Colchians Did Not Like to Write’: Reflections on Greek Epigraphy in the Eastern Black Sea Region and Its Hinterland – David Braund ; The Other Greeks: The Achaei of the Western Caucasus – Ioannis K. Xydopoulos ; General ; Pontic Greeks and Locals: Subterranean Dwellings Once Again – Gocha R. Tsetskhladze ; The Roman Naval Strategy in the Black Sea in the 1st-3rd Centuries AD. Some Preliminary Considerations – † Mihail Zahariade