Conference program
Ankara time (UTC+3)
First day: 13 June 2021
Under the Auspices of Bilkent University
10.00-10.15. Opening speeches
I. Session: Major site discoveries since 2009 (last PATABS III) on land and underwater
Chair: Thibaut Castelli (Université de Paris Nanterre, Paris)
10.15-10.30. Chavdar Tzochev, Constantina Kallintzi, Eurydice Kefalidou and Mercourios Georgiadis, The Amphoras of Ancient Abdera: New Data for Local Production from the APAX Survey
10.30-10.45. Pierre Dupont, Vasilica Lungu, Chian & Mainland North-Ionian Archaic East Greek Transport Amphoras. Case study of the Orgame Heroon Specimens
10.45-11.00. Kyriakos Fragkoulis, Unexpected Finds or an Unnoticed Regularity? Black Sea Amphorae from the Excavations of the Late Antique Dion in Macedonia (Greece)
11.00-11.15. Coffee break
11.15-11.30. Dominique Kassab Tezgör and Nino Inaishvili, A Late Colchian Vessel and a Long-Lasting Pattern
11.30-11.45. Anna Smokotina, Late Roman Amphorae from the Harbor of Panticapaion (Bosporus)
11.45-12.00. Yana Morozova, Sergey Zelenko and Mariia Tymoshenko, On a Rare Type of Byzantine Amphorae from Two Shipwrecks off the Crimean Coast
12.00-12.15. Sergey Ivanov, Sergey Tsarenko and Sergey Zelenko, Ceramic Production and Shipping of Amphorae in the 8th – 10th Centuries off the Coast of Tavrika (According to Underwater Archaeological Research)
12.15-12:30. Discussions
12:30-14.00. Lunch
II. Session: Trade in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Western Countries
1st part: Greece
Chair: Chavdar Tzochev (Athens)
14.00-14.15. Kostas Filis, Early Economic Aspects in Thermaic Gulf. The Evidence from Transport Amphorae
14.15-14.30. Margarit Damyanov, Fifth Century BC Amphorae from a Site in the Chora of Apollonia Pontica
14.30-14.45. Mark Lawall, Sorting the ‘Samians’ of the 6th and 5th centuries B.C.
14.45-15.00. Discussion
15.00-15.15. Coffee break
II. Session: Trade in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Western Countries
2nd part: Greece
Chair: Mark Lawall (University of Manitoba)
15.15-15.30. Sergey Monakhov and Elena Kuznetsova, «Mendean» Amphorae from the Prikubanskiy Burial Ground
15.30-15.45. Thibaut Castelli, Akanthian Importations in Istros
15.45-16.00. Vasilica Lungu, Naspercene Wine and Sinopean Amphorae at the Ptolemaic Court
16.00-16.15. Hakan Öniz, Black Sea Amphorae at the Coast of the Mediterranean
16.15-16:30. Discussions and closure of the first day
Second day: 14 June 2021
Under the Auspices of the Institute for South-Eastern European Studies of the Romanian Academy in Bucharest
II. Session: Trade in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Western Countries
3nd part: Roman Period
Chair: Yana Morozova (Center for underwater Archaeology and Archaeological Research, National Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv)
10.00-10.15. Horacio González Cesteros, Ephesos and the Black Sea. A First Overview about the Roman and Late Antique Black Sea Amphorae Found at Ephesos
10.15-10.30. Denis Masyuta, Amphora Import of Tyras in the 1st Century AD
10.30-10.45. Merab Khalvashi and Nino Inaishvili, New Discoveries of the Roman and Early Byzantine Amphoras from Eastern Black Sea Littoral
10.45-11.00. Dorel Paraschiv and Ștefan Honcu, Roman and Roman-Byzantine Amphorae Discovered at Halmyris, Tulcea County
11.00-11.15. Discussion
11.15-11.30. Coffee Break
II. Session: Trade in the Black Sea, Mediterranean and Western Countries
4th part: Roman Period
Chair: Horacio González Cesteros (Austrian Archaeological Institute, Vienna)
11.30-11.45. Elena Klenina and Andrzej B. Biernacki, Economic Transformations in Novae (Moesia Secunda) in the Late Antiquity
11.45-12.00. Philip Bes, Further Observations on Roman-Period Pontic/Sinopean Amphorae in the Eastern Mediterranean
12.00-12.15. Asena Kızılarslanoğlu, Trade of Sinope Amphorae in Cilicia
12.15-12.30. Constantin Băjenaru, Two Types, Same Fabric: Imitation of LRA 1 (similis) and Globular Amphora Antonova 9. Finds from the Black Sea and the Aegean
12.30-12.45. Discussions
12.45-14.30. Lunch break
III. Session: Contents, Metrology and Standardization
Chair: Andrzej B. Biernacki (Adam Mickiewicz University, Faculty of History Poznan
14.30-14.45. Max Fiederling, There and Back Again. The Wreck Portiței A. Interdisciplinary Research on a Roman Merchant Ship and Empties Transporter off the Black Sea Coast of Romania
14.45-15.00. Andrei Opaiţ, A Heraclean carrot amphora?
15.00-15.15. Discussion
15.15-15.30. Coffee break
IV. Session: Clay Analysis
Chair: Hakan Öniz (Akdeniz University, Antalya)
15:30-15:45. Diana Dobreva and Claudio Capelli, Archaeology and Archaeometry of a Group of North African Amphorae from the Black Sea and Lower Danube Areas
15:45-16.00. Sabine Huy, Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaic Transport Amphorae from Taganrog. Some new insights into production centres in northern Ionia
16.00-16.15. Discussions and closure of the second day
Third day: 15 June 2021
Under the Auspices of Niko Berdzenishvili Institute of Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University, Department of Archaeology and History
V. Session: Epigraphy
1st part
Chair: Kostas Filis (Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaia, Patras)
10.00-10.15 Jelena Bolonkina, Nikolai Jefremow and Andrey Kolesnikov, Rare and New Amphora Stamps from the Area of the Bosporan Empire
10.15-10.30. Nino Dzneladze, The Amphorae Graffiti from the Eastern Black Sea Littoral (Colchis).
10.30-10.45. Kalin Madzharov and Anelia Bozkova, Amphora Stamps from a Pit Field at Malenovo, Southeastern Bulgaria
10.45-11.00. Alexandru Avram, The Rhodian Amphora Stamps in Istros: A Quantitative Approach
11.00-11.15. Discussion
11.15-11.30. Coffee break
VI. Session: Epigraphy
2nd part
Chair: Nikolai Jefremow (Universität Greifswald)
11.30-11.45. Livia Buzoianu, Irina Sodoleanu, and Nicolae Alexandru, New Amphorae and Amphora Stamps from Albeşti (Constanţa county)
11.45-12.00. George Nuţu, A Group of Stamped Narrow Neck Light-Clay Amphorae from Portița Inlet off North Romanian Coastline
12.00- 12.15. Dragoș Hălmagi, Dipinti and Graffiti on Late Roman amphorae from Dinogetia
12.15-12.30. Discussions
12.30-14.30. Lunch
VII. “Free Session”
Chairs: Dominique Kassab Tezgör, Nino Inaishvili, Vasilica Lungu
14.30-16.00.
“Free session” for discussing and sharing any unsolved questions encountered during our sessions (could be related to identification, type, chronology, provenance…), in order to have some feedback from peers
Conclusions
Proposals for the PATABS V edition
16.00. Closure of the PATABS IV edition