seem to have been multiple forms, which circulated widely in the north
Aegean as far east as Troy, and which have been found inland as far as
the southern foothills of Rhodope.^74 As with the monochrome tableware
of the east Balkans and the various other styles circulating in the Ther-
maic Gulf, the transmission of ideas and technologies was not, it seems, a
straightforward one. Referring to the geometric-typeamphoraefrom
Koprivlen, in southern Rhodope, Božkova comments:‘The... middle
Nestos area... was integrated in the processes of commercial exchange
current in the Aegean as early as the second half of the eighth or the
beginning of the seventh centurybc. This hypothesis supersedes the
traditional opinion that until late Archaic times the privilege of acquir-
ing, reproducing, and trading with products in the leading Greek pottery
styles was restricted to the maritime settlements.. .’^75 This echoes what
Pierre Dupont has already voiced in connection with ceramic innovation
in the hinterland of Istros, at Beidaud. Božkova points to the dissemin-
ation of occasional Mycenaean ceramics and other, late second or early
first millenniumbcpottery in this area, which implies that there was an
earlier network that continued to be exploited throughout thefirst half of
thefirst millenniumbc.^76
Mining for metals and mineralsApart from rather exceptional observers, like Theophrastus, few ancient
writers had anything original to say about rocks and minerals. Historians
were generally interested in people, not things, and least of all mute,
shapeless, impenetrable masses of rock. Very occasionally, however, an
incident provides an unexpected shaft of light. In the spring of 181bc,
Philip V of Macedon conducted a renewed campaign deep into the
heartland of Thrace, following an invasion just two years earlier, in the
summer of 183 bc, which was itself a partial re-staging of a great
campaign as far as the Hebros, at Philippopolis and beyond to Kabyle,
in 204bc.^77
(^74) Gimatzidis 2010, 263; Catling 1998; Božkova 2005.
(^75) Božkova 2005, 89.
(^76) See now St. Bakardjiev,AOR2009 [2010] 149–51, on Early Iron Age remains at
Zavoy, Yambol district, including a bird bowl and rosette-decorated bowl (151fig. 3, 1–2),
evidently imported Ionian examples; these are surprisingly far inland at this date. 77
Philip V’s campaign in Thrace,183bc: Plb. 23.8.3–7; Philip’s campaign in Thrace, 181
bc: Livy (P) 40.21.1–2; 22.1; cf. Plb. ap. Str. 7.5.1; V’s campaign in Thrace, summer 204bc:
Plb. 13.10, including a reference to ̊ÆâýºÅ, although the Polybian fragments make the
precise details of this campaign unclear (Walbank,Commentary,II, 423).
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