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Late Antique Georgia & the Black Sea Region

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Ian Colvin is a Byzantinist and Late Roman historian, specialising in the Eastern Frontier and the South Caucasus. He runs a longstanding archaeological dig at Nokalakevi in the Republic of Georgia in partnership with the Georgian National Museum and the University of Winchester. Nokalakevi is a long period site, which corresponds to the Archaeopolis of Late Roman sources and is sometimes also identified as Aia, the capital of King Aeetes’ Colchis during the heroic age, destination of Jason and his Argonauts in their quest for the Golden Fleece. Currently with the Cambridge Schools Classics Project, he has also taught at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Winchester.

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