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Honneurs à Apamée pour Proclus Manneius Ruso : Kelainai – Apameia Kibotos: Stadtentwicklung im anatolischen Kontext / Kélainai – Apamée Kibôtos : Développement urbain dans le contexte anatolien (Kelainai 1), éd. A. Ivantchik, L. Summerer, A. von Kienlin. Bordeaux, 2011, 281-294, avec Th. Drew-Bearmore
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The article provides a publication of a building inscription from Tanais, fragments of which were found mainly in situ during the excavations on the agora in 1993. The inscription dates back to the end of the reign of Sauromates II (most... more
The article provides a publication of a building inscription from Tanais, fragments of which were found mainly in situ during the excavations on the agora in 1993. The inscription dates back to the end of the reign of Sauromates II (most likely the first decade of the third century AD) and records on the restoration of a portico financed by a royal presbeutes whose name is not preserved. The construction work was organized by the hellenarches Basileides, son of Theoneikos, and another official of whose name only the patronymic – “son of Samuel” – has been preserved. The inscription increases the number of known inhabitants of Tanais who bore Jewish names, and additionally confirms the existence of a Jewish community in the city. One of the buildings discovered on the agora (Bau 6) may have been a mikveh used by its members.
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The article presents an edition of three new inscriptions found during the excavations of 2009, 2010 and 2012 at Tanais, as well as a republication of one inscription discovered in 1968. The earliest of them dates back to AD 108 and... more
The article presents an edition of three new inscriptions found during the excavations of 2009, 2010 and 2012 at Tanais, as well as a republication of one inscription discovered in 1968. The earliest of them dates back to AD 108 and informs us about the restoration or construction of the southern gate (trench XIX) financed by the Hellenes temporarily living in Tanais and not having its citizenship. The fragment of the second plate is also connected with the southern gate and is dated to AD 212; it seems to be contemporary with the inscriptions CIRB 1246 and 1248, if not part of the first of them. The works on repairing defensive walls mentioned in these inscriptions can now be precisely dated. Two other inscriptions were discovered near the western gate, but they are not directly connected
with it. The first of them probably refers to the reconstruction of the tower III and is dated to ca. AD 220. The second is dated to roughly the same period and represents a dedication to the river god Tanais on behalf of a thiasos. This is the third known inscription testifying to the existence of this cult and its thiasos. The new inscriptions mention persons already known from published texts, which allows us to complete our data on the prosopography of Tanais in the first half of the 3rd century AD.
with it. The first of them probably refers to the reconstruction of the tower III and is dated to ca. AD 220. The second is dated to roughly the same period and represents a dedication to the river god Tanais on behalf of a thiasos. This is the third known inscription testifying to the existence of this cult and its thiasos. The new inscriptions mention persons already known from published texts, which allows us to complete our data on the prosopography of Tanais in the first half of the 3rd century AD.
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Garlan Yvon. Les timbres céramiques sinopéens sur amphores et sur tuiles trouvés à Sinope. Présentation et catalogue. Istanbul : Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes-Georges Dumézil, 2004. 384 p. (Varia Anatolica, 16
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Résumé publié des communications dans: Les découvertes archéologiques et les fouilles. XXXVe Conférence national
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Humanities, Art, Ancient Greek Religion, Greek Sicily, and 14 moreGreek Architecture, Archaic Greece, Ancient Greek Pottery, Greek Colonization (Magna Graecia and Sicily), Greek sanctuaries, Cult of Demeter and Kore, Sicily, Greek and Roman Art and Architecture, Tholos, Sanctuary, Sanctuaire, Agrigento, Chthonic Cults, and Sicile
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Kelainai. A Phrygian City between East and West. In the ancient city Celaenae at the source of Meander were localized the myths of Marsyas and Midas. It was known as the place where the Ark of Noah first touched ground. Being on the route... more
Kelainai. A Phrygian City between East and West. In the ancient city Celaenae at the source of Meander were localized the myths of Marsyas and Midas. It was known as the place where the Ark of Noah first touched ground. Being on the route between Sardeis and Gordion it was the halting place for many armies. For its outstanding natural position at the gates to inner Anatolia it was chosen as seat of Achaemenid and Seleucid rulers. Xerxes, Cyrus the Younger and Antiochos built there palaces and hunting gardens. Later the name of the city was turned to Apameia and an epitheton Kibotos (box) was added to distinguish it from other cities with this name. In Roman times Apameia was known as the biggest market in Asia Minor after Ephesus. The Franco-German survey project is a fully integrating multidisciplinary research program to study the archaeological remains of ancient Celaenae/ Apameia Cibotos. For a wider understanding of both city and chora the strategies of research are twofold : f...
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Le mythe des Argonautes a souvent attire l’attention des antiquisants, non seulement des specialistes de la litterature grecque, mais egalement des historiens et des archeologues. Ces derniers ont essaye de l’utiliser comme un temoignage... more
Le mythe des Argonautes a souvent attire l’attention des antiquisants, non seulement des specialistes de la litterature grecque, mais egalement des historiens et des archeologues. Ces derniers ont essaye de l’utiliser comme un temoignage direct de contacts precoloniaux entre la civilisation grecque et les cotes de la mer Noire, notamment le territoire de la Georgie actuelle. En outre, on a souvent fait remonter ces contacts jusqu’a l’epoque mycenienne. .
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In the summer of 2006 in the Khmelnitskii region near the village of Zarichanka of the Chemerovtsy district two joining fragments of a Roman military diploma were found in a ploughed field with the help of a metal detector. In the same... more
In the summer of 2006 in the Khmelnitskii region near the village of Zarichanka of the Chemerovtsy district two joining fragments of a Roman military diploma were found in a ploughed field with the help of a metal detector. In the same field on a number of previous ...
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The new data that have become available in the last two decades show that the Scythian Kingdom with its capital in Neapolis Scythica, which existed in the Crimea in the 2nd century BC, was much closer to Hellenistic states ruled by... more
The new data that have become available in the last two decades show that the Scythian Kingdom with its capital in Neapolis Scythica, which existed in the Crimea in the 2nd century BC, was much closer to Hellenistic states ruled by barbarian dynasties than to nomadic kingdom of the Scythians of the 4th century BC. At the same time, these data allow us to return in part to the old view formulated by Rostovtzeff about continuity between the Scythia of the 4th century BC and the Late Scythian Kingdom, which most researchers have rejected during the last thirty years. It turned out that this continuity existed at least at the ideological level, and the excavations at Ak-Kaya (Vishennoe) filled the chronological gap between the Scythian Kingdoms of the 4th and 2nd century BC. Apparently, Ak-Kaya became one of the political centres of the Scythians as early as the late 4th century BC, before the fall of "Great Scythia", and the capital of the Crimean Scythians was located there before it was moved to Neapolis Scythica. In the formation of Late Scythian culture and the Late Scythian Kingdom with its capital first in Ak-Kaya and then in Neapolis Scythica, apart from the Scythian elements, sedentary Tauri took part, as well as probably the Greeks and the Hellenized population of the chorai of the Greek cities in northwestern Crimea. A key role in changing the character of Scythian culture was apparently played by a change in its economic-cultural type and the transition from nomadic pastoralism to
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This article presents the publication of an inscription from Tanais dating from the first half of the second century AD; some of its fragments were found at the beginning of the twentieth century and others during excavations in the... more
This article presents the publication of an inscription from Tanais dating from the first half of the second century AD; some of its fragments were found at the beginning of the twentieth century and others during excavations in the 1990s. The inscription was cut on a large marble block and is a dedication by a thiasos. Twenty names have survived in the inscription (one of them appears twice). Some of them reflect Roman influence. Two of the persons mentioned at the beginning of the list were Roman citizens, as can be seen from their names: the citizenship of one of them can be traced back to the Julio-Claudian era and that of the other to the Trajan era, which provides the terminus post quem of the inscription. Two other persons were not Roman citizens, but their parents’ affection for Rome resulted in choosing Latin names for their children. One of the names in question, Κικέρων, is unique and reflects not just the Roman influence but familiarity with Latin literature. This provides rare evidence of how in the second half of the first century AD Roman influence in the Bosporus was not only political or military: there were admirers of Roman culture and literature living there, who obviously knew the Latin language. Many of the names in the inscription are Greek (Ζήνων, Πάνκαρπος, Στέφανος, Ἔρως (featured twice), Ποντικός, Μηνόφιλος, ῾Ηρακλείδης, Θεόφιλος, Πόθος). One of them (Μηνόφιλος) had apparently made its way to the Bosporus from Asia Minor. Two other names (Φαρνάκης, Ἀριαράθης /
-ράμνης) are of Persian origin, but had been adopted from the South Pontic region. There are only three Sarmatian names (Αζιας, Αρδαρος, Οροατης), which is an unusually small number for inscriptions found in Tanais. One tentatively restored name might be Jewish (Σαμου]ήλου); if some other versions of its restoration are accepted, it should be included in the group of Greek names. One further name (Παππος) belongs to the category of Lallnamen of unclear origin. Three of the members of the thiasos mentioned in this inscription are also mentioned in two other thiasos inscriptions (two in CIRB 1262 and one in CIRB 1266), which enables placing all the three inscriptions into the same chronological group.
-ράμνης) are of Persian origin, but had been adopted from the South Pontic region. There are only three Sarmatian names (Αζιας, Αρδαρος, Οροατης), which is an unusually small number for inscriptions found in Tanais. One tentatively restored name might be Jewish (Σαμου]ήλου); if some other versions of its restoration are accepted, it should be included in the group of Greek names. One further name (Παππος) belongs to the category of Lallnamen of unclear origin. Three of the members of the thiasos mentioned in this inscription are also mentioned in two other thiasos inscriptions (two in CIRB 1262 and one in CIRB 1266), which enables placing all the three inscriptions into the same chronological group.
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This article contains a publication of a dedication by strategoi to Augustus, his heir Gaius Iulius Caesar and to the People, which was found in Olbia in 2006 and dates from the period between the year 1 BC and the year AD 4. It is the... more
This article contains a publication of a dedication by strategoi to Augustus, his heir Gaius Iulius Caesar and to the People, which was found in Olbia in 2006 and dates from the period between the year 1 BC and the year AD 4. It is the earliest inscription from post-Getic Olbia to have been discovered. Analysis of it makes it possible to suggest that Olbia was rebuilt after the rout by Burebistas in the last years BC under Roman control. The state organization of Olbia, which took shape after the city had been restored, reproduced certain features of the Roman constitution. Despite suggestions often voiced to the effect that Scythians or Sarmatians were included among its citizens, they were only granted the status of Olbian citizens later on-in the years 50-80 AD. The city was restored by Greeks who, at least in part, had come from Asia Minor and Thrace.
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This article is a publication of fragments of seven honorary decrees originating from Tyras. One of them dates from the Hellenistic period and is the first known proxeny decree of this city. The others are of the Roman period. Despite... more
This article is a publication of fragments of seven honorary decrees originating from Tyras. One of them dates from the Hellenistic period and is the first known proxeny decree of this city. The others are of the Roman period. Despite their very fragmented condition, they give new information concerning the functioning of the polis institutions of Tyras. In particular, they allow us to assume that the position of secretary in the city was lifelong, as in neighbouring Histria. Dating formulas are preserved in some of the inscriptions, which makes it possible to determine their date within a year.
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Анализ данных, ставших доступными в последние два десятилетия, позволяет заключить, что Скифское царство со столицей в Неаполе Скифском, существовавшее в Крыму во II в. До н. э., гораздо больше напоминало эллинистические государства с... more
Анализ данных, ставших доступными в последние два десятилетия, позволяет заключить, что Скифское царство со столицей в Неаполе Скифском, существовавшее в Крыму во II в. До н. э., гораздо больше напоминало эллинистические государства с варварской династией во главе, чем кочевническое царство скифов IV в. до н. э. При этом новые данные заставляют отчасти вернуться к старому, ростовцевскому, представлению о преемственности между Скифией IV в. до н. э. и позднескифским царством, от которого большинство исследователей отказалось в последние тридцать лет. Выяснилось, что преемственность существовала по меньшей мере на идеологическом уровне, а раскопки в Ак-Кае (Вишенное) заполнили хронологическую лакуну между Скифскими царствами IV и II вв. до н. э. По-видимому, Ак-Кая стала одним из политических центров скифов еще в конце IV в. до н. э., до гибели «Великой Скифии», и столица крымских скифов находилась здесь до своего перемещения в Неаполь. В сложении Позднескифской культуры и позднескифского царства со столицей сначала в Ак-Кае, а затем в Неаполе, помимо скифских элементов, приняли участие оседлые тавры, а также, вероятно, и греки и давно эллинизированное население хоры греческих городов Северо-Западного Крыма. В изменении облика скифской культуры ключевую роль, видимо, сыграло изменение хозяйственного-культурного типа и переход от кочевого скотоводства к оседлому земледелию. В статье предлагается новая интерпретация надписи на мавзолее Аргота, обнаруженной в Неаполе в 1999 г. Аргот был, по-видимому, не скифом, а греком, несмотря на свое скифское имя. Этот боспорский аристократ со скифскими семейными связями во второй четверти II в. до н. э. женился на овдовевшей боспорской царице Камасарии и упоминается в качестве ее мужа в надписи КБН 75. Он занимал важное место в управлении Боспорским царством и его защите от нападений с востока. Затем, скорее всего, после смерти Камасарии, он переселился в соседнее царство скифов, где стал одним из ведущих полководцев, правой рукой царя и воспитателем его детей. После смерти (ок. 130–125 г. до н. э.) он получил от царя Скилура невиданные почести: для него был возведен героон перед фасадом царского дворца, причем этом было единственное в Неаполе по-настоящему греческое здание, построенное с соблюдением правил ордерной архитектуры и украшенное греческими статуями и рельефами, а также метрической эпитафией с многочисленными гомеризмами.
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The paper is devoted to the publication of an inscription found during the excavations in Olbia in 2006. The text belongs to the series of dedications of city magistrates well known in Olbia of the Roman period. The inscription is the... more
The paper is devoted to the publication of an inscription found during the excavations in Olbia in 2006. The text belongs to the series of dedications of city magistrates well known in Olbia of the Roman period. The inscription is the earliest one from this series and dates between 1 BC and AD 4. Unlike other inscriptions of this type, it is dedicated to members of the Julian dynasty and to the demos. It is also the earliest known inscription of the city after it was restored following its destruction by Burebistas, probably with the help of the Romans. The inscription gives important new information about the relations between Olbia and Rome, as well as between Olbia and its barbarian neighbours in the end of the first century BC and the beginning of the first century AD.
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Publication of an inscription from Olbia joined from two previously known fragments (IOSPE I2, 288+289). The text is interpreted as a metric epitaph of a youth or a girl.
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Kelainai–Apameia Kibotos: une métropole achéménide, hellénistique et romaine (= Kelainai II ), sous la direction de Askold Ivantchik, Lâtife Summerer, Alexander von Kienlin. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2016, 289-299
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Une inscription lydienne de Kelainai, in: Kelainai – Apameia Kibotos: une métropole achéménide, hellénistique et romaine / Kelainai – Apameia Kibotos: eine achämenidische, hellenistische und römische Metropole (Kelainai, II). Ed. A. Ivantchik, L. Summerer, A. von Kienlin. Bordeaux, 2016, 289-300more
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Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Bordeaux, France, 17-18 October 2016 (Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d’Aquitaine) – Table of contents, here:... more
Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Bordeaux, France, 17-18 October 2016 (Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d’Aquitaine) –
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https://brill.com/abstract/journals/acss/24/1-2/acss.24.issue-1-2.xml
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Rev.: Pontos Euxeinos. Beiträge zur Archäologie und Geschichte des Antiken Scwarzmeer- und Balkanraumes. Edited by S. Conrad, R. Einicke, A.E. Furtwängler, H. Löhr and A. Slawisch. Schriften des Zentrums für Archäologie und Kulturgschichte des Schwarzmeerraumes 10. Langenweißbach, Beier & Beran, 2006, 490 pages, ACSS, 13, 2007, 285-288.more
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Résumé publié des communications dans : Commerce and Monetary Systems in the Ancient World (Means of Transmission and Cultural Interaction : Melammu, 5
International conference convened by M. Minardi and A. Ivantchik held at the Ausonius Institute UMR 5607 CNRS, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, Archéopôle d'Aquitaine, 17th-18th October 2016
Research Interests: Philology, History, Archaeology, Art History, Material Culture Studies, and 22 moreHellenistic History, Epigraphy (Archaeology), Aramaic, Zoroastrianism, Iranian Studies, Afghanistan, Silk Road Studies, Numismatics, Central Asia, Ceramics (Archaeology), Archaeology of Central Asia, Kushan history, Material Culture, Achaemenid History, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Epigraphy, Archaeology of the Eurasian steppe belt, Scythian and other Eurasian Nomadic Horse Warrior Cultures, History of Central Asia, Excavations, and Ancient Chorasmia
Résumé publié des communications dans: Le Caucase et les civilisations de l'Orient ancie
Le temps et l’espace déterminent ensemble les caractéristiques des groupes qui les partagent. Leur histoire, facteur mais aussi expression identitaire, peut être réinventée – comme l’ont fait les Athéniens à propos de Marathon –,... more
Le temps et l’espace déterminent ensemble les caractéristiques des groupes qui les partagent. Leur histoire, facteur mais aussi expression identitaire, peut être réinventée – comme l’ont fait les Athéniens à propos de Marathon –, réinterprétée – comme le faisait les Scythes dans leurs légendes –, vécue au présent – par les Bataves du Haut-Empire – par et pour l’ethnos, autant qu’elle est le résultat de sa synergie.