© =) >) | ve) >) AvP) ve) > >) ed c colocviul international / intemational colloquium ‘ROMANTI LA ‘MAREA 'NEAGRA {N VREMEA LUI AUGUSTUS {sf \ Og) THE ROMANS AT THE BLACK ‘SEA 4 } (DURING THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS 4 THERA SO TETey JOR 2OTF REZUMATE | ABSTRACTS: ?,Institutul de Cercetari Eco-Muzeale Tulcea Muzeul de Istorie si Arheologie International colloquium The Romans at the Black Sea During the Time of Augustus: The Evidence of Literary, Archeological and Numismatic Sources Abstracts Tulcea, Romania 4 June - 9 June 20122 Internationa eollouium Romans at the Black Sea During the Time of Augustus _ location, except for the sanctuary of the Thracian gods, was created a point of the Roman road guard. During the reign of Augustus there were no Roman soldiers in the Crimea. The long-term Roman military presence is recorded only by the time of Nero, after the expedition of Plautius Silvanus (mid-60-s of the 1" c. AD) to help Chersonesos against the Scythians and, perhaps, the Sarmatians. Traces of this Roman presence are revealed in the North-Western Crimea. At the end of the 1* c. BC — beginning of the 1* c. AD the artifacts appeared which one could attribute to the popularization of the Augustan cult: representations of Augustus on the red-slip ware. The scholars suggest that these portraits were the means of the official propaganda and the affirming of prestige of the Roman Empire. The finds of such vessels in the Western Crimea may indicate the residence of Romanophilae who sought to demonstrate their political sympathies, even in everyday life Roman Imports in the Mountain Crimea (fom the Eklizi-Burun sanctuary) in Age of Augustus Alexander LYSENKO, Vyacheslav MASYAKIN Crimean Branch of the Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Simferopol, Ukraine, a-lysenko@mail.ru masjakinv@mail.ru The objects of Roman provenance found in the Mountain Crimea are dated to the Hellenistic and Roman period. Items of the Augustan epoch are found in two culturally homogeneous barbarian sanctuaries: Gurzuf Saddle and Eklizi- Burun. The range of these finds is wide (metal and glass vessels, tools, coins, etc.), particularly characteristic are details of the military equipment. Most objects are intentionally damaged. Apparently they were trophies taken from Roman soldiers and offered as votives by adepts of the sanctuaries. These materials help to define the time and intensity of contacts between the local population and the Roman army. A general characteristic of the Gurzuf Saddle sanctuary is published by N. Novichenkova, The materials from Eklizi-Burun supplement these data. There are two chronological groups of Roman imports. Early Group (Augustan Period — end of 1* c. AD). Most indicating in this group are: a bronze plate from a helmet (Weisenau Type, Imperial-Gaulish after Robinson); a gladius (Mainz Type, Haltern- Camulodunum variant after Miks); a bronze tip from the sheath of a similar sword; an iron belt-loop from horse-harness: tableware (a silver foot shaped as a winged beast; fragments of Rippenschale cups). Some artefacts can be dated more precisely to the time of Tiberius (14-37 AD) and Claudius (41-54 AD). Fibulae Aucissa are represented by the latestAegyssus 2000 examples of the variant Feugere 22b2, one with an inscription (20-40 AD). A hinged rhomboid brooch, Type Feugere 24b1, is dated generally to 30/40-60/70 AD, but most likely to the Claudian period. A belt plaque belongs to the details of Roman military equipment with the late Celtic zoomorphic motives. Some samples of this style are dated to the Augustan period, but the majority of them originated from contexts of the Tiberian and beginning of the Claudian time. A silver plate with floral ornamentation similar to that of the Emessa helmet is dated probably to 1“ half of 1" c. AD. A bronze weight in form of an Emperor's bust (Tiberius?) is evidently synchronous to these finds. Late Group (2 half of 2nd —1 half of 3rd c. AD). This group includes: a sword-spatha with a stamp, Lauriacum-Hromovka ‘Type, Mainz-Canterbery variant after Miks: a buckle with a loop at the back; a round belt plaque with a triangular loop: and probably lids from the ‘Blechkanne”- oinochoai, Straldzha Type after Raev. The comparison of the Mountain Crimean sanctuaries in the Early period allows suggesting that the local population was involved in the collisions with the Roman troops in the last quarter of 1" c. BC (Gurzuf Saddle) and in the Tiberian- Claudian times (Gurzuf Saddle, Eklizi-Burun). Perhaps the items of each chronological group appeared in the sanctuaries simultaneously as a result of some individual events. The circumstances of offerings of 1* c. BC are not quite clear. Objects of the next group could be obtained by adepts of the sanctuaries during the Roman-Bosporan war (Tac. Ann. XII, 17). Similar events (see IOSPE, I’, 562) might influence the appearance of the Late Group of Roman artefacts (Eklizi-Burun).