In the second half of the first century ce, the Romans built a fort at the mouth of the river Apsaros on the coast of Colchis. A Roman garrison was stationed there also in the second century and first half of the third. One of the reasons for fortifying the estuary of the river, given by both Pliny the Elder and Arrian, was the immediate vicinity of the kingdom of Iberia. Both Roman authors also described the local tribes living on the coast between Trebizond and Apsaros and further north. One wonders whether they were the indigenous population of the region and what kind of a relationship they had with the Roman Empire. This study searches for answers to these questions in the preserved written sources and in the archaeological record.

中文翻译：

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Apsaros 堡垒的邻居。Principate 时期黑海沿岸的当地部落


公元 1 世纪下半叶，罗马人在科尔基斯海岸的阿普萨罗斯河口建造了一座堡垒。罗马驻军在 2 世纪和 3 世纪上半叶也驻扎在那里。老普林尼和阿里安都给出了加固河口的原因之一，即紧邻伊比利亚王国。两位罗马作者还描述了居住在特拉比松和阿普萨罗斯之间海岸以及更北端的当地部落。人们想知道他们是否是该地区的土著居民，以及他们与罗马帝国有什么样的关系。本研究在保存下来的书面资料和考古记录中寻找这些问题的答案。