PONTUS ANDTHE OUTSIDE WORLD

Studies in Black Sea History, Historiography,and Archaeology

EDITED BY

C J. TUPLIN

' 6 8 V

BRILLLEIDEN • BOSTON

2004

CONTENTS

G.R. TSETSKHLADZE (London/Melbourne), Editorial VII

C.J. TUPLIN (Liverpool), Preface IX

List of Abbreviations XI

Z.H. ARCHIBALD (Liverpool), In-groups and Out-groups in the Pontic

Cities of the Hellenistic Age 1

D. BRAUND (Exeter), Scythians in the Cerameicus: Lucian's Toxaris . . . 17

D. BRAUND (Exeter), Herodotus' Spartan Scythians 25

S. WEST (Oxford), Herodotus on Aristeas 43

A.V. ZAIKOV (Ekaterinburg), Alcman and the Image of Scythian Steed .. 69

A. KAKHIDZE (Batumi), Silver Phialai from the 5th Century BC Greek

Cemetery at Pichvnari 85

N. MATIASHVILI (Tbilisi), The Red-gloss Pottery from Vani in Colchis . . 121

M. TREISTER (Leipzig/Bonn), Gold Vessels, Perfume Flasks and Pyxidesfrom Sarmatia 131

M. TREISTER (Leipzig/Bonn), The Theme of Amazonomachy in LateClassical Toreutics. On the Phalerae from Bolshaya Bliznitsa 195

G.R. TSETSKHLADZE (London/Melbourne), On the Earliest Greek Colo-nial Architecture in the Pontus 225

Addresses of Contributors 279

General Index 281