With the limitation of travels linked with COVID-19, the need for exchanging ideas between scholars has become more crucial. In the continuity of the blog Spartokosalu which built bridges between Pontic specialists for now 10 years, I will organize an international webinar, nammed « Mondes Pontiques » consisting in a monthly 30-45 minutes online paper about the Black Sea during Greek and Roman era.
The whole perimeter of the Black Sea is here considered, up to 100 km inland, from the 8th c. BC until the 7th c. AD. The papers will have to be in English, French, Italian or German. If you are interested in submitting a proposal, thank you for sending an abstract (700 signs) to:
Some of the conferences are available here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2VjljPWWQTM6gf2XTYJy_g
Thank you for your contribution !
April 2025
Madalina Stefan
January 2025
Florina Bîrzescu
December 2024
Alienor Rufin
November 2024
Emzar Kakhidze
October 2024
Victoria Kotenko
September 2024
Florian Matei-Popescu
June 2024
Kurul Kalesi: « A Mithradates Castle from Anatolian Pontos »
Süleyman Yücel Şenyurt
Wednesday, 22nd May 2024
Between Roman Culture and Local Tradition. Roman Provincial Coinage of Bithynia and Pontus during the Reign of Trajan (98–117)
Barbara Zając
National Museum in Krakow
Wednesday, 10th April 2024
The Beidaud Archaeological Microzone. Interdisciplinary approach to an ancient rural landscape
Valentin Bottez
“Dinu Theodorescu” Laboratory of Archaeology
Faculty of History, University of Bucharest
Wednesday, 20th March 2024
Change through trade or how Greek are the “Greek imports” in the Pontic steppe zones?
Sabine Huy
Christian-Albrechts Universität Kiel, Institut für Klassische Archäologie
Wednesday, 21st February 2024
Archaic mines and metallurgical workshops at Apollonia Pontica
Alexandre Baralis, musée du Louvre
Teodora Bogdanova, National Archaeological Institute and Museum (BAS)
Dimitar Nedev, Archaeological Museum of Sozopol
Wednesday, 17th January 2024
Grain and Mercenaries: on the relationship between Bosporos and Arkadia in the time of Leukon I
Liviu Iancu
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, Bucharest, Romania
Wednesday, 15th November 2023
Jochen Fornasier
Martin-Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg
Wednesday, 18th October 2023
Entertaining the masses. Gladiators in the Pontic region
Marius Streinu, Heritage National Institute, Romania
Wednesday, 14th June 2023
Altay Coşkun
Professor of Classical Studies
University of Waterloo
Wednesday, 17th May 2023
The 3rd Century Crisis and Beyond at Komana
Burcu Erciyas, Middle East Technical University
Wednesday, 12th April 2023
Crimean natives at the beginning of Iron Age: sites and material culture
Evelina Kravchenko, Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Tuesday 14th March 2023
Late Scythian Hillfort at Konsulovskoe (Kherson Oblast, Ukraine)
Marcin Matera
University of Warsaw, Faculty of Archaeology
Wednesday, 22th February 2023
Euergetism and benefaction in ancient Olbia (IV BC – IV AD)
Oksana Ruchynska
University of Fribourg, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Fonds national Suisse (FNS)
Wednesday, 18th January 2023
Apollonia Ponticas coinage as a reflection of its historical and archaeological transformation.
Hristina Ivanova-Anaplioti
University of Zurich, Department of Archaeology, Classical Archaeology Division
Wednesday, 14th December 2022
François de Callataÿ
Tuesday, 15th November 2022
Les antiquités dans les tourments de la guerre de Crimée (1854-1856)
Joanna Martin, École du Louvre – Université Paris Nanterre ArScAn UMR 7041
Wednesday, 19th October 2022
Topography around Olbia Pontica in Old Polish archives (16th c.)
Alfred Twardecki
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Wednesday, 15th June 2022
Parfuming for Gods: Bust Thymiateria in Pontic Region
Tetiana Shevchenko
Institute of Archaeology National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Wednesday, 18th May 2022
The Sarmatian archaeological culture as ‘imagined entity’
Valentina Mordvintseva
Thursday 21st April 2022 : The Epigraphical Researches of Tios and Rethinking the Roman History of the Eastern Bithynia in light of the epigraphic evidence
Bülent Öztürk (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Department of Archaeology, Istanbul)
Tuesday 15th March 2022 : Crisis in the northern Black Sea region : The 3rd c. BC in light of the epigraphic material from Olbia Pontike by Joanna Porucznick (University of Opole)
Wednesday 16th February The Daily Life of the Potters in Sinope in the Late Antiquity by Dominique Kassab-Tezgör (Bilkent University, Department of Archaeology)
Tuesday 18th January 2022 : Late Roman and Early Christian Necropolises from Extra Muros Area at Histria. An Overview Reflected by the Recent Archaeological Excavations
by Viorica Rusu-Bolindeț
National Museum of Transylvanian History, Cluj-Napoca
Wedesday 17th November 2021 : Preliminary Results of the Studies in the South-Eastern Part of the Tanais Citadel in 2015-2019. by Tatiana Egorova (Department of Archeology Lomonosov Moscow State University) and Sergei Iliashenko (Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
Wedesday 20th October 2021: White marble at the Black Sea. Some observations on Greek sculptures (Archaic–Hellenistic) discovered around the Pontos Euxeinos by Veronika Sossau (Department for Ancient Studies at Basel University, assistant for Classical Archaeology)
Wednesday, 22th September 2021 : Défendre une cité à la fin de l’antiquité. Zaldapa, ville des confins danubo-pontiques by Brahim M’Barek (EVEHA, membre visiteur UMR 8164 HALMA, Lille, membre associé UMR 7044 ARCHIMEDE, Strasbourg).
Wednesday, 16th June 2021 : Du nouveau sur Hérôs Héphaïstos Dabatopios et son sanctuaire de Telerig (Mésie Inférieure) par Dan Dana (Laboratoire HISOMA, Lyon)
Wednesday, 19th May 2021 : Migrant Craftspeople in the Black Sea and its approaches during the Archaic period by John Brendan Knight (University of Liverpool)
Map made by Giorgi Balakhadze, source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_Black_Sea_with_bathymetry_and_surrounding_relief.svg
Spartokos a lu 
