This book brings together, for the first time, tombstones of the 6th-1st
centuries BC from the necropoleis of the Greek colonies of the whole
western Black Sea area (modern-day Bulgaria and Romania). It studies
monuments with relief decoration - 98 pieces (from Apollonia, Bizone,
Callatis, Dionysopolis, Histria, Mesambria, Naulochos, Odessos and
Orgame) are examined and illustrated in a geographically arranged
catalogue, which is preceded by a full discussion of typologies,
iconography, chronology, compositional elements, material, workshops and
production, etc. The book is not merely a case study but also an
examination of Greek funerary art in general, offering parallels from
mainland Greece, the Greek islands and Asia Minor, and noting general
tendencies as well as local peculiarities specific to the western Black
Sea.