producing batch samples in controlledfiring conditions. The fact that
some techniques and forms resemble native Early Iron Age pots suggests
that in practice not only were the new methodologies changes of degree
rather than kind, but also that knowledge of wider technologies was not
altogether new either. Analysis of the ceramic production at Beidaud, a
Getic oppidumc.30 km inland of Istros and halfway between Istros and
another local centre of ceramic production, Orgame, shows the style and
methods are distinctive and not directly derivative of either Istros or
Orgame.^67 Similarly, a group of lustrous grey pots, together with Ionian
bowls and a Corinthian-stylearyballos, was found in thefill of a tumulus
constructed in the mid sixth centurybcat Prilep, near Karnobat, inland
from the Black Sea coast in Bulgaria. Since this predates the general
diffusion of wheel-made grey wares, it looks as if direct contacts were
made with potters at or from Troy, Anatolian Larissa, or Antissa on
Lesbos.^68 A related, but slightly different challenge is reflected in some-
what earlier ceramics in the east Carpathian region of the middle Dnies-
ter, where an earlier stage of ceramic borrowings has been postulated,
belonging to a phase preceding the foundation of Greek trading settle-
ments along the Black Sea coast.^69
The relationship between Balkan and Pontic grey wares and north
Aegean ceramic traditions implies that the associated technology was
exchanged in a relatively unconstrained way during the seventh and sixth
centuriesbcand probably earlier. There was a similarly unconstrained
pattern in the north-western Aegean, with Aeolian pottery from Lesbos
being shipped to the indigenous Thracians on Thasos between the
(^67) Dupont and Lungu 2010;‘Il n’est donc pas exclu que l’on puisse se trouver ici face à
un atelier de l’intérieur (une telle éventualité avait déjà été envisagée par Mănucu-Adameş-
teanu 1992.. .) dont il s’agira de déterminer si ses productions sont le fait de potiers grecs
(itinérants ou sédentaires) opérant en territoire barbare ou bien de réalisations à mettre au
compte d’artisans gètes initiés à la pratique de tournage et ayant adopté, tout ou partie, le
répertoire de forme des ateliers grecs du littoral, comme dans le cas des potiers indigènes de
Serra di Vaglio, imitant des terres cuites métapontines dès le milieu du VIe s.’(Dupont and
Lungu 2010, 494).
(^68) Božkova and Nikov 2009, 49: [re Prilep tumulus, mid or third quarter of the sixth
century]:‘Cette date précède la période de grande propagation de la céramique mono-
chrome dans la Thrace du Sud, tout en attestant d’une façon convaincante la présence de
contacts anciens avec les centres maritimes et, vraisemblablement, avec Apollonia en
particulier.’Tzochev (2011, 85) assumes that transmission was by thefirst generation of
Apollonian settlers, but expresses surprise that commercial relations were established so
quickly. Even if this were to be the case, it presupposes an earlier infrastructure for
commerce with communities of the interior unconnected with the actual settlement at
Apollonia. 69
Levitski and Kashuba in Avram et al. 2009, 106–7 andfigs 4–5; Daragan, in Avram
et al. 2009, 130.
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