The coins of the Macedonian kingdom are from the mints of the cities of Amphipolis, Sardis, Colophon, Miletus/Mylasa and Salamis. A great majority of them (70) belong to the Hellenistic kingdoms: 13 Macedonian (Alexander the Great and Philippos III Arrhidaios), two Bithynian (Prusias II Cynegus), 55 Pontic (Mithradates VI Eupator). Şevket Dönmez between 20, 90 coins (one gold, five silver, 84 bronze) were discovered, dating from the last quarter of the 4th century BC to 48 BC. During the archaeological excavations at Oluz Höyük which were carried under the direction of Prof. The mound lies on the fertile Geldingen plain, from the south of which an important tributary of the Yeşilırmak river (ancient Iris), the Çekerek (ancient Skylaks) passes. Oluz Höyük (Yassı Höyük - Tepetarla Höyüğü) is located on the western part of the city Amasya which is in the central Black Sea Region of Turkey. The coins found at the excavations of Amasya/Oluz Höyük, 2009–2013. Can also be downloaded here (as well as the rest of the articles in this volume): Kalydon’s most famous cult is to Artemis Laphria, but two additional cults have been identified during the recent excavations: a shrine on the central Acropolis, and the cult in the Peristyle House in the Lower Town. Both published and unpublished miniature pottery is contextualized, and the cult related to the miniature votives is re-examined. Meticulous searches through the finds in the storerooms have led to the identification of more than 200 fragments of miniature pottery. The author has been involved in the work at Kalydon since 2011 and has been able to study both published and unpublished miniature pottery found since 2001. Within the last decade, miniature pottery has attracted considerable scholarly attention, which has produced insight that may be applied to the evidence from Kalydon. The renewed excavations have produced a substantial amount of miniature votive pottery, and in drawing attention to this hitherto rather overlooked aspect of material culture, I will argue that it must play an important role in our understanding of religious practice in ancient Kalydon. The purpose of this article is to cast further light on the religious cults of the city and Kalydonian ritual behaviour. These renewed excavations have produced much new information about the ancient city, including its religious cults. In the period 2011-6, Drs Rune Frederiksen and Søren Handberg carried out excavations in collaboration with the Ephorate of Antiquities of Aetolia-Acarnania and Lefkada in Kalydon’s Theatre, and on the Lower Acropolis plateau.
In the years 2001-5, Drs Søren Dietz and Maria Stavropoulou-Gatsi directed excavations in several areas of the city, and the results were published in two volumes in 2011. The past 15 years have witnessed renewed and intensive archaeological fieldwork at the ancient Greek city of Kalydon in Aitolia. The symposium was also an occasion to honour an eminent scholar of the Early Iron Age, Professor Jan Bouzek. 700 BC, the rise of the polis, were some of the suggested lines of inquiry. The regional diversities or homogeneities, the interaction between the Greek and indigenous communities, the study of the Early Greek World independently from the chronological “divide” of ca. The topics of the papers were drawn from the three axis of the “ARISTEIA” research project (Settlements, Sanctuaries, Cemeteries). A second aim of the symposium, was to present new evidence from important current excavation projects, thus highlighting the data published up to now. The aim of the symposium was on one hand to present original overviews, mostly geographical, of the current data from the entire Greek World, dating from the tenth to the end of the seventh century BC, based partly on the results of the research of the members of the “ARISTEIA” project or thanks to the expertise of the invited scholars. The current volume contains the papers read during the International Symposium entitled “Regional Stories towards a New Perception of the Early Greek World”, held at the University of Thessaly in Volos, from 18-21 June 2015.
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