Landscape dynamics and settlement patterns in Northern Anatolia during the Roman and Byzantine period / edited by Kristina Winther-Jacobsen and Lâtife Summerer.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Kristina Winther-Jacobsen and Lâtife Summerer – 2. Roman-period finds from the Cide region / Philip Bes – 2. Settlement and economic intensification in the late Roman/early Byzantine hinterland of Sinop / Owen Doonan – 3. How did the landscape of Pompeiopolis become Roman? / Peri Johnson – 4. Contextualizing Neoklaudiopolis: a glimpse at settlement dynamics in the city's hinterland / Kristina Winther-Jacobsen – 5. Above as below: The application of multiple survey techniques at a Byzantine church at Avkat / Peter Bikoulis, Hugh Elton, John Haldon and Jim Newhard – 6. The end of late antiquity in Paphlagonia: disurbanisation from a comparative perspective / Max Ritter – 7. Preliminary results of rescue excavations at the Sanctuary of Zeus Stratios near Yassiçal, Amasya province / Celal Özdemir – 8. Rural necropoleis and settlement dynamics: Thoughts on Roman and Byzantine graves at Oymaağaç Höyük, Samsun province / Pavol Hnila – 9. Two coins from Oymaağaç Höyük: Appendix to Rural necropoleis and settlement dynamics by P. Hnila / Vera Sauer – 10. From funerary doorstones in Pompeiopolis to tracing local identity from the Phrygian Highlands to Inner Paphlagonia / Julia Koch – 11. Preliminary results of rescue excavations in the Roman and Byzantine necropoleis of Amasya (1977-2014) / Muzaffer Doğanbaş – 12. Results of a rescue excavation in the village of Zafer, near Tekkeköy, Samsun province / İlkay İvgi̇n – 13. Honoured, beheaded and buried: A new deposit of statues from Amastris / Baran Aydin, Laura Buccino and Lâtife Summerer – 14. Dynamics of mosaic design in northern Anatolia in the Roman and early Byzantine periods / Luisa Musso – 15. Preliminary results of rescue excavations in 2013 at a Roman mosaic-paved building in the village of Yavru, Amasya province / Esra Keskin – 16. Ancient Roads and Bridges of the Vezirköprü District / Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen and Rainer M. Czichon – 17. Epigraphy and the provincial organisation of Paphlagonian cities in the Roman Empire / Christian Marek – 18. The coinage of Neoklaudiopolis and Pompeiopolis against the background of the minting practices of Pontic and Paphlagonian cities during the Roman Imperial period / Vera Sauer.

After his victory over Mithradates VI the Roman general Pompey founded a number of cities in order to shape the newly founded Roman province in the inland of the conquered former Pontic kingdom, in the southern Black Sea region. This sparked the beginning of an intense process of urban and rural development peaking in the 2nd century AD and continuing until the Byzantine period, a level of intensity never accomplished in northern Anatolia until today. The reorganization of space through the development of new urban centers affected the whole region and transformed the territory. This volume reviews current knowledge regarding these new founded Roman cities in relation to their territories, necropoleis and sanctuaries. It consists of 18 articles, which explore dynamics in settlement patterns, architecture, urban and mortuary spaces, monetary circulation and epigraphic habit. Some articles present the results of recent field research, others review little known material ripe for new interpretations, while new archaeological data is provided by the reports of rescue excavations carried out by local museums.