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Black Sea Colonization
Author(s) : Dimitriadou Daphne (5/9/2003)Translation : Kalogeropoulou Georgia
For citation: Dimitriadou Daphne, "Black Sea Colonization",Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, Black SeaURL: <http://www.ehw.gr/l.aspx?id=7338>
GLOSSARY
amphora, the from the greek words "αμφί"(on both sides) and "φέρω" (carry): vessel with long ovoid body and a considerably narrower neck made in various sizes from the smaller perfume oil container to the large storage receivers of liquids and solids. It stands on a small foot and it bears two invariable vertical handles on either side. Some of the distinguished types of the amphorae are these whose lower part is tapering to the point (narrow bottomed), the neck type, the Nicosthenian, the Nola, the Panathenaic, the Tyrrhenian, the SOS type.
1. Introduction
2. Models of colonisation
3. The Colonisation of Propontis
4. The Colonisation of the Black Sea
4.1. The first phase (2nd half of the 7th c. BC)
4.2. The second phase (circa 1st half of the 6th c. BC)
4.3. The third phase (circa 560-530 BC)
5. Colonies in the Black Sea during the Classical period
6. Rationale for colonisation
7. Economy of the colonies
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