International Conference

P A P H L A G O N I A and P O N T U S

in Antiquity and the Early Byzantine Period
(7th c. BC- 7th c. AD)

May 31 — June 4 2008 / Izmir, Turkey

PROGRAMME

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31st May
1st June
2nd June
Post-conference Excursions
Posters

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May 31st

OPENING SESSION

9:30am

Welcome: Ergün LAFLI and Gocha TSETSKHLADZE
Announcements of practical arrangements

10:00am

Opening lecture: Gocha TSETSKHLADZE
The Southern Black Sea Coast and its Hinterland: An Ethno-Cultural Perspective

10:25am

Coffee

SESSION 1. ECONOMIC LINKS OF THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA
COAST WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD

10:40am

Jan BOUZEK
Cimmerians, Greek Colonisation in Pontus and Paphlagonia and the Significance of Greek Pottery There

11:05am

Jan Gerrit DE BOER
Sinope and Colchis, Secondary Colonisation or an Early Greek Commonwealth?

11:30am

Krzysztof DOMZALSKI
Late Roman Red Slip Pottery Trade in the Black Sea

11:55am

Octavian BOUNEGRU
La Bithinie et les villes ouest-pontiques: une koine commerciale à l'époque Romaine

12:20pm

General Discussion

12:35pm

LUNCH

SESSION 2. PAPHLAGONIA, PONTUS AND THE SOUTHERN BLACK
SEA COAST IN THE MYTHOLOGICAL, LITERARY AND CARTOGRAPHICAL TRADITION

1:40pm

Fred C. WOUDHUIZEN
The Saga of the Argonauts: A Reflex to Thraco-Phrygian Maritime Encroachment on the Southern Pontic Littoral

2:05pm

José VELA TEJADA
Stasis and Polemos at Pontus According to Aeneas Tacticus (the First Half of the 4th Century BC)

2:30pm

Bruno TRIPODI
I Paflagoni nell'Anabasi di Senofonte

2:55pm

Alexander PODOSSINOV
Paphlagonia and Pontus on the Tabula Peutingeriana

3:20pm

Thomas BRÜGGEMANN
Paphlagonia between Goths, Sasanids and Arabs in the Literary Tradition (3rd-7th Centuries AD)

3:45pm

General Discussion

4:00pm

Coffee

SESSION 3. FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND PRACTICES IN PAPHLAGONIA AND PONTUS

4:20pm

Maya VASSILEVA
The Rock-Cut Monuments of Phrygia, Paphlagonia and Thrace: A Comparative Overview

4:45pm

Roman STOYANOV
Anthropomorphic Steles as One of the Distinctive Features of Greek Necropoleis around Black Sea Littoral and Burial Customs of Anatolia

5:10pm

Nicole BIRKLE
Paphlagonian and Pontic Rock-Cut Tombs in their Context

5:55pm

Robert FLEISCHER
The Rock-Cut Tomb of Pharnaces I in Amasya and its Followers

6:00pm

Monica M. JACKSON
The Amisos Treasure. A Hellenistic Grave from the Age of Mithradates Eupator King of Pontus

6:25pm

General Discussion

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June 1st

SESSION 4. ETHNO-CULTURAL IDENTITY

9:30am

Amelia DOWLER
Bithynia: The Fusion of Thracian, Greek and Anatolian Culture

9:55am

Frederic MAFFRE
Achaemenid Power in Paphlagonia and Their Relationships with Local Populations

10:20am

Constantina KATSARI
Ethnic vs Civic Identities in Paphlagonia and Pontus

10:45am

Coffee

11:05am

Julij EMILOV
Galatians in Ancient Thrace and Asia Minor: Various Models of Contacts and Interactions between Migrant and Local Groups

11:30am

F. Eray DÖKÜ
Phrygian Traces in Paphlagonia

11:55am

Claire BARAT
Sinope in Paphlagonia, Sinope and Paphlagonia: an Historical Balance

12:20pm

General Discussion

12:40pm

LUNCH

SESSION 5. PROSOPOGRAPHY, LINGUISTICS AND EPIGRAPHY

2:10pm

Marius-Tiberiu ALEXIANU
Le grec des inscriptions de Pontus et de Scythia Minor: une approche contrastive

2:35pm

Lucretiu BIRLIBA
Les Pontobithyniens en Dacie romaine

3:00pm

Peter A. DIMITROV
Pontus and Bithynia: Linguistics and Epigraphics

3:25pm

Roxana-Gabriela CURCA
La réflexion statistique de l'émigration de Pontus et de Bithynia en Scythie Mineure

3:50pm

General Discussion

4:00pm

Coffee

SESSION 6. BYZANTINE PAPHLAGONIA AND PONTUS

4:20pm

William ANDERSON, Abby ROBINSON
Characterising Settlement in Late Antique Paphlagonia

4:45pm

Dimitris P. DRAKOULIS
Regional Transformations and Settlement Network of the Coastal Pontic Provinces in the Early Byzantine period (4th - 7th centuries AD)

5:10pm

D. Burcu ERCİYAS, Emine SÖKMEN
The Territory of Comana Pontica during the Byzantine Period

5:35pm

Luca ZAVAGNO
Amastris (Paphlagonia): A Study in Byzantine Urban History between the Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

6:00pm

Mark WILSON
The Rise of Christianity in Paphlagonia and Pontus: Factors Related to Early Christian Origins in Northern Anatolia

6:25pm

General Discussion

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June 2nd

SESSION 7. COINAGE

9:30am

Sergei A. KOVALENKO
Coins of Pontus and Paphlagonia in the Numismatic Collection of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow

9:55am

Melih ARSLAN
Coins of Gangra-Germanikoupolis in Paphlagonia

10:20am

Canan ÖZBİL SERİN
Greek Coins in the Collection of Çorum Museum

10:45am

General Discussion

10:55am

Coffee

SESSION 8. MISCELLANEA

11:15am

F. Eray DÖKÜ, Güven DINÇ, Fatma ŞIMŞEK
A. Gökoğlu's Notebooks and Statues in Paphlagonia

11:40am

Andrea DE GIORGI
Provincial Conflicts? Pontus Galaticus in the Early and Late Roman Empire

12:05pm

Peri JOHNSON
Lost in Translation? Beyond the Apotropaism of Heroes and Monsters in Achaemenid Paphlagonia

12:30pm

General Discussion

12:40pm

LUNCH

SESSION 9. NEW FIELD PROJECTS IN THE SOUTHERN BLACK SEA

2:10pm

Sümer ATASOY
New Exploration of the Turkish Black Sea Coast: Filyos - Tios

2:35pm

Şevket DÖNMEZ
A New Excavation in Pontus: Amasya-Oluz Höyük. Preliminary Results for the Hellenistic Period and Iron Age Layers

3:00pm

Vedat KELEŞ
Rock-Cut Tombs at Dikenlice in Ordu (Pontus)

3:25pm

Ertekin DOKSANALTI, Güngör KARAUĞUZ
The Hellenistic and Roman Ceramics from Field Surveys at Devrek and Environs

3:50pm

General Discussion

4:00pm

Coffee

SESSION 10. HADRIANOUPOLIS

4:20pm

Ergün LAFLI
Hadrianoupolis in South-Western Paphlagonia: Fieldwork between 2005 and 2007

4:45pm

Sedat BİÇER
Early Byzantine Bath A in Hadrianoupolis: Architecture and Restoration

5:10pm

Eda GÜNGÖR
Terracotta Lamps from Hadrianoupolis in south-western Paphlagonia

5:35pm

Binnur GÜRLER
Late Roman-Early Byzantine Glass from Hadrianoupolis in south-western Paphlagonia

6:00pm

Sami PATACI
Mosaics and Frescoe from Hadrianoupolis in southwestern Paphlagonia

6:25pm

General Discussion

CLOSING SESSION with paper by Ergün LAFLI
Roman and Early Byzantine Settlement Patterns in Paphlagonia: New Aspects

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June 3rd - June 4th

Post-conference excursions

June 3rd: Smyrna, Private Museum of Izmir Chamber of Commerce, Museum of History and Art, Archaeological Museum, Ethnographic Museum, Agora excavations.

June 4th: Miletus OR Pergamon (to be confirmed later).

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POSTERS

SESSION 1 POSTERS

Anna ALEXANDROPOULOU
Die spätklassische und hellenistische Keramik des Pontosgebietes: Ein Überblick.

SESSION 2 POSTERS

Julia A. BIBARSOVA
The Roman Province of Bithynia According to the Letters of Cicero 51–50 BC.

Handan BİLİCİ ALTUNKAYALIER
Classical Sources on Paphlagonia.

Anna GOROZHANOVA
Lycians in the Iliad of Homer.

Sebastiana LAGONA
Le città portuali della Paflagonia e del Ponto al tempo di Strabone.

SESSION 3 POSTERS

Güngör KARAUĞUZ, Özşen ÇORUMLUOĞLU, İbrahim KALAYCI
Roadside Monument at Amasra-Kuşkayası: Creating a 3-D Photogrametrical Model

Güngör KARAUĞUZ, O. DOĞANAY, H.İ. KUNT
Observations on Some Grave Monuments in Western Paphlagonia

SESSION 4 POSTERS

Eka AVALIANI
Ethno-Cultural Mosaics of the Ancient Anatolia: Prolegomena to the Study of Ethnic Groups and their Expression in the Old Testament.

Cristian Emilian GHITA
The Pontic Army: A Model for the Integration of Graeco-Macedonian and Achaemenid Traditions.

Christoph MICHELS
The Kings of Bithynia, Pontus and Cappadocia - Philhellenes and Hellenisers?

Annette TEFFETELLER
Strategies of Continuity in the Construction of Ethnic and Cultural Identity: The Lineage and Role of Zeus Stratios in Paphlagonia and Pontus.

SESSION 7 POSTERS

Mikhail ABRAMZON
A Hoard of Bronze Pontic and Bosporan Coins of Mithradates VI’s Reign from Phanagoria.

Melih ARSLAN
Coins of Trapezus in Pontus.

Kyrylo MYZGIN
Finds of Roman Coins of Asia Minor Provincial Mintage in the Territory of Chernyakhov Culture.

SESSION 8 POSTERS

Oleg GABELKO
Once Again on the System of Year-Reckoning in the Pontic Kingdom.

Vedat KELEŞ, Süleyman ÇİĞDEM
Gümüşhane and its Environs as the Eastern Borderline of Pontic Kingdom.

Iulian MOGA
Strabo of Amasia on the ‘Persian’ Artemis and Mên in Pontus and Lydia.

Jean-Louis PODVIN
Cultes Isiaques en Pont et Paphlagonie.

Stephanie PRYOR
Constructing Queenship on the Periphery: A Study of the Visual and Material Evidence for Roman Period Client-Queens from the Black Sea.

Füsun TÜLEK
The Bejewelled Lady of Sinope.

NEW INVESTIGATIONS AND STUDIES AROUND THE BLACK SEA

Stefan ALBRECHT
The Crimea and the Southern Coast of the Black Sea (6th-7th centuries AD).

Maja AUFSCHNAITER
Byzantine Influence and the Cultural Exchange in Early Mediaeval Times on the Crimean Peninsula.

Vadim BZHANIA, Demur BZHANIA
The Early Mediaeval Monuments from the Land of the Saniges.

Sujatha CHANDRASEKARAN
Double-Sided Glass ‘Face Pendants’ in the Black Sea Area

Sergey L. DUDAREV
Some Features of the Tribes of the Central Northern Caucasus in the Early Iron Age (Based on Findings from ‘Lermontovskaya Rock (at the River)’ Burial Ground).

Vladimir ERLIKH
Gold-Plated Terracotta Jewellery from Maeotian Sites of the Kuban Region (The Problem of Intercultural Contact in the Early Hellenistic Period).

Alik N. GABELIA
Dioskurias and the Pontic Kingdom.

Apollon GABRIADZE
The Problem of Trading Contacts of Lazika in Late Antiquity-Early Byzantine Period: Amphorae from Kutaisi.

Zlatozara GOCEVA
Le culte de grand dieu d’Odessos dans des colonies grecques ouest-pontiques.

Vakhtang JAPARIDZE
Fragen über das Wesen und Verbreitung der Denkmäler der Steinarchitektur in der historischen Kolchis.

Merab KHALVASHI, Emzar KAKHIDZE
The Sinopean Amphorae in Apsarus.

Liudmila KHRUSHKOVA
‘Theodosian’ Capitals from Chersonesus Taurica.

Rossina KOSTOVA
Surviving on the Coast: the Northern Part of the Western Black Sea Coast, 4th-10th Centuries.

Sergei A. KOVALENKO
The Hestiatorion of Chaika Settlement in the North-Western Crimea.

Marlena KRASTEVA, Andrey TONEV
A Cult Building in Sozopol.

Boris MAGOMEDOV, Sergey DIDENKO
Red Slip Pottery in Chernyakhov Culture.

Leonid Sergeevich MARSADOLOV
Calendar-Astronomical Aspects of People of Anatolia and Nomads of Eurasia in the 1st Millennium BC.

Vladimir MASLOV, Vladimir ERLIKH
Recent Investigation of the Ulski Kurgans.

Evgeny MOLEV, Natalia MOLEVA
New sacred complex opened in Kyta in 2006-2007

Elena A. POPOVA, Tatiana V. EGOROVA
Investigation of the Late Scythian Cinder Heap on the Site of Chaika by Evpatoria in the North-West Crimea.

Salome SANIKIDZE
Anatolian Women at the End of 2nd and 1st Millenniums BC: General Status and Difference.

Dmitri VASILINENKO, Liudmila KHRUSHKOVA
Two Previously Unknown Basilicas of the Early Byzantine Period in the Eastern Black Sea Region.

Pavlina VLADKOVA, Iliyan BAYCHEV
Between the East and the West: The Production of a Ceramic Centre in the Roman Provice of Moesia (modern Northern Bulgaria).

Alexeiy ZIN’KO
Sanctuaries of the Bosporan City of Tyritake in the 5th-6th Centuries AD.

Elena ZIN’KO
Bosporan Painted Crypts (3rd-6th Centuries AD): Chronology and Style.

Viktor ZIN’KO
Tyritake: The City and Chora in the 6th-5th Centuries BC.