Examining trade networks from 700 BC to AD 200, this study explores the economic ties between the Black Sea and Mediterranean regions. Drawing on archaeological and historical evidence, experts reassess established views while incorporating new findings, uncovering the depth of their mutual commercial relationships.

Introduction; Milesians in the Black Sea: Trade, Settlement and Religion; Greek Archaic Orientalising Pottery from the Barbarian Sites of the Forest-steppe Zone of the Northern Black Sea Coastal Region; Black Sea Grain for Athens? From Herodotus to Demosthenes; Athenian Wheat-Tsars: Black Sea Grain and Elite Culture; Timber as a Trade Resource of the Black Sea; A Weighty Matter: Pontic Fish Amphorae; The One That Got Away: A Reassessment of the Agoranomos Inscription from Chersonesos (VDI 1947.2, 245; NEPKh II, 129); Amphora Finds of the 4th Century BC from the Settlements of the Lower Dnieper Region; Echanges d'amphores tirnbrées entre Sinope et la Méditerranée aux époques classique et hellénistique; Local Patterns of Trade in Wine and the Chronological Implications of Amphora Stamps; Changes in Late Classical and Hellenistic Fine Pottery Production in the Eastern Mediterranean as Reflected by Imports in the Pontic Area; The Circulation of Ceramic Fine Wares and Transport Amphorae from the Black Sea Region in the Mediterranean, c. 400 BC-AD 200; The Unification of Pontos: The Bronze Coins of Mithridates VI Eupator as Evidence for Commerce in the Euxine; Lighting Equipment of the Northern Pontic Area in the Roman and Late Roman Periods: Imports and Local Production; Some Thoughts about the Black Sea and the Slave Trade before the Roman Domination (6th-1st Centuries BC); Contacts between the Ptolemaic Kingdom and the Black Sea in the Early Hellenistic Age; Traders and Travellers in the Black and Aegean Seas; Trade and Tribute: Byzantion and the Black Sea Straits.