A collection of papers that document some of the huge wealth of archaeological material currently being discovered around the shores of the Black Sea. Papers include: Thracia Pontica ( Alexander Fol ); The problem of Krounoi-Dionysopolis: one settlement ot two? ( Zlatozara Gocheva ); Colchis and Bosporus: two models of colonisation? ( G A Koshelenko and V D Kuznetsov ); Joint excavation in Tanais ( Burkhard Böttger ); Achilles and Helen on White Island Euxine Sea ( John Hind ); The Bronze-Working and toreutics of the Pontus ( M Y Treister ); Stone matrices with griffins from Nymphaeum and Euesperides ( M Treister and M Vickers ).