Tios/Tieion on the Southern Black Sea in the Broader Context of Pontic Archaeology

Gocha Tsetskhladze (PhD Moscow, DPhil Oxford) was a classical archaeologist who specialised in ancient Greek colonisation and the archaeology of the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, Caucasia, Anatolia, and Central and Eastern Europe in the 1st millennium BC. He was the author of more than 250 books, edited volumes, chapters, articles, etc.; founder and series editor of the publication series Colloquia Pontica, now Colloquia Antiqua; and founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Ancient West and East. He organised many international conferences, congresses, etc., notably the International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities which he established in 1995. He died suddenly on 11 September 2022, aged 59.   Şahin Yıldırım graduated from the Classical Archaeology Department at Ankara University, where he also received his Master’s degree and Doctorate. He started his career in Edirne Archaeology and thnography Museum in 1998, serving as Museum Specialist and Deputy Museum Director. He has taught in the Department of Archaeology at Bartın University since 2016, He continues his archaeological excavations and research in many regions of Turkey, especially in the ancient cities of Sagalassos, Zeugma, Soloi-Pompeiopolis, Hadrianopolis (Edirne), Tios-Tieion and Satala.

Introduction: Tios (Tieion) in the Context of Black Sea Colonisation – Gocha R. Tsetskhladze (†) (with Şahin Yıldırım)







Tios in Ancient Geography and Cartography – Alexander V. Podossinov







The Acropolis Temple of Tios (Tieion) – Şahin Yıldırım







The Lower City of Tios: Finds in the Firebrick Factory Area – Sümer Atasoy







Coin Finds and a Partial Tetrarchic Coin Hoard from Tios (2015–16) – Edward Dandrow







Remarks on the Indigenous People that Inhabited the Region around Tieion/Tios – Manolis Manoledakis







A First Consideration of Roman Traces in Paphlagonian Hadrianopolis according to the Data of

2018–2021 – Ersin Çelikbaş


 


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The Phrygian Kingdom: A Local Power or a Regional State? – Şevket Dönmez







Some Thoughts on Coarse-Ware Pottery of the Early Iron Age found in the Inönü Cave – F. Gülden Ekmen







Revisiting the Rock-Cut Tunnels in the Black Sea Region of Turkey – Emine Sökmen Adalı







Some Aspects of the Socio-Cultural Life of Roman Heraclea Pontica in the Light of the Epigraphic, Numismatic and Literary Evidence – Bülent Öztürk







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New Evidence about the Monumental Architecture in the Temenos of Apollonia Pontica in the Archaic and Classical Periods – Daniela Stoyanova and Margarit Damyanov







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New Material about an Old Archaeological Discovery: The First Mordvinovskii Barrow – Yuriy A. Vinogradov







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