Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Valentina Mordvintseva , Anna Ivanova , and Svyatoslav Smirnov -- 1 Archaeological Research of F. Marschall von Bieberstein in the East Crimea and on the Taman Peninsula in 1793–1795 / Irina V. Tunkina -- 2 Zur Forschungsgeschichte der Proxenie im Schwarzmeerraum / Victor Cojocaru -- 3 Europe as an Island: to the Question of the Ancient Division of the Oikumene into Continents / Alexander V. Podossinov -- 4 Jason and Odysseus in the Far West and the Earliest (Tangible) Argonautic Tradition in the 8th and 7th Centuries / Altay Coşkun -- 5 Fifth Century BC Coinage of Cilician Soloi: from Amazon to Amphilochus the Seer / David Braund -- 6 Rhodes and the Black Sea in Hellenistic Times / Alain Bresson -- 7 τὰ Μεγάλα Διδύµεια in the Roman Times / Dmitry B. Merkin -- 8 Phanagorian Synagogue (Preliminary Report) / Vladimir D. Kuznetsov -- 9 Belt Set from the Sarmatian Burial of Pervomaïskiï- VII Kurgan Necropolis in the Volga-Don Interfluve / Mikhail Treister -- 10 A Hun-Period Ritual Deposit from the North Caucasus (Preliminary Report) / Andrej B. Belinskij , Yakov B. Berezin , and Heinrich Härke -- 11 Seleucid Coins from the North Pontic Region: a Reappraisal / Svyatoslav V. Smirnov and Evgeniï V. Zakharov -- 12 About the Last Gold Coin Issues of Mithradates VI : a Recent Hoard and Archaeological Finds Made at Chersonesus and Panticapaeum / Mikhail G. Abramzon and François de Callataÿ -- 13 Linguistic Commentaries on a Number of Iranian Anthroponyms from Olbia / Yuriy A. Dzitstsoity and Alexander I. Falileyev -- 14 On a Recently Published River Ordeal Instruction from Mari on the Euphrates (Late 19th Century BC ) / Ilya S. Arkhipov -- 15 Divine Splendour in Urartian Religion: the Anzaf Votive Shield as a Pictorial Translation of Religious Syncretism / Walter Kuntner and Sandra Heinsch -- 16 On a Possible Progenitor of Ketos at Kelermes: Observations on the Origin and Iconographic Transmissions of a Greek Mythical Creature / Michele Minardi -- 17 Imported Seals from Grakliani Gora / Vakhtang Licheli -- 18 Bucephalus-Zadeh of Uruzgan / Pavel B. Lurje -- Back Matter -- Index of Ancient and Modern Geographical Sites, Linguistic and Ethnic Terms.

This volume presents contributions in honour of Askold Ivantchik on his sixtieth birthday. Since his main academic interest lies in the Black Sea region in ancient times inhabited by diverse cultural groups who also had frequent contacts with people from far beyond, we collected articles on this topic. The volume presents papers analyzing different kinds of sources and using various approaches to reveal networking and agency of peoples that belong to different social strata and cultural milieus. It will be of interest for scholars looking for multidisciplinary research methods as well as for the newest information about the archaeology of the Circumpontic region.

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