The new publication series of the Heinrich Schliemann Institute for Classical Studies at Rostock begins with the collected research of the former director of the institute over four decades on the earliest city in the Black Sea region, founded after 650 B.C. by Miletus near present-day Istria, RO. Histria existed for some 1300 years and was never built over. The volume contains forewords by the editors and the author as well as 21 papers dealing with the excavations in the temple zone, stone implements, and roof terracottas of the Greek period, the rural estate of Histria Pod, the structure and function of the excavation museum, Archaic roof terracottas, analyses of excavation features, Greek altars, eaves tiles with meander reliefs, depictions of genitalia on the city gate, a presumed acroterion or altarpiece, a roof tile with a votive inscription, early roof terracottas from Miletus and the Pontos area, new excavation features from the temple zone, the Apollonian Triad from Histria, excavations in the temple zone in 1990-2009, palmette antefixes, acroteria from Histria, a dolphin from the edge of a roof, and two earlier prehistoric find complexes from the temple zone.weiterlesen