DHA
19,1
1993
233-256
ON THE NUMISMATICS OF COLCHIS :
the classical archaeologist's perspective
Gocha R. TSETSKHLADZE Oxford, Balliol College
In ancient times Greek authors referred to the territory situated on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, within what is called Western Georgia today, as Colchis * !. As early as the eighth
The following abbreviations have been used : DHA = Dialogues d'histoire ancienne; RA = Revue Archéologique; VDI = Vestnik Drevnei Istorii (Moscow). On Colchis see the following works of O.D. LORDKIPANIDZE : "Monuments of Greco-Roman culture on the territory of ancient Georgia' Archaeologia, XVII (1966), p. 49-79 ; 'La civilisation de l'ancienne Colchide aux Ve-IVe siècles', RA 2 (1971), p. 259-288 ; 'La Géorgie et le monde grec', ВСЯ XCVIII (1974), p. 897-948 ; 'The Greco- Roman world and Ancient Georgia (Colchis and Iberia)', Collection de l'école française de Rome, 67 (1983), p. 123-44; 'Das alte Kolchis und seine Beziehungen zur griechischen Welt zoom 6. zum 4. Jh. v. Chr., Xenia, Konstanzer althistorische Vortrage und Forschungen (Konstanz, 1985), Heft. 14 ; 'Archéologie in Géorgien von der
