Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
Published on 5. May 2005
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-0-19-926526-8 (ISBN)
Description
Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.
Reviews / Votes
best new thought about Roman provincial coinage's role as sociocultural evidence. * Oliver D. Hoover, American Numismatic Society * the volume is on the whole exceptionally convincing. The careful arrangement of the contributions according to their general or more specific approach allows a clear and coherent picture to emerge... and attests to the sensible planning of the editors. Besides the single, comprehensive bibliography, the general and place-name indices, the many maps and the photos of the coins are particularly helpful. * Philipp Fondermann, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * There is no doubt that this is a very important piece of workMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
numerous maps and halftones
Dimensions
Height: 284 mm
Width: 226 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
1136 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-926526-8 (9780199265268)
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Christopher Howgego | Volker Heuchert | Andrew Burnett
Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
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12/2007
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Persons
Christopher Howgego is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Reader in Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College
Volker Heuchert is Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and AHRB Institutional Fellow for the Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period Project (AHRB and University of Oxford)
Andrew Burnett is Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum
Volker Heuchert is Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and AHRB Institutional Fellow for the Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period Project (AHRB and University of Oxford)
Andrew Burnett is Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum
Editor
Senior Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum, Reader in Greek and Roman Numismatics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow of Wolfson College.
Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum and AHRB Institutional Fellow for the Roman Provincial Coinage in the Antonine Period Project (AHRB and University of Oxford).
Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum.
Content
1. Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces ; 2. Aspects of identity ; 3. The chronological development of Roman provincial coin iconography ; 4. The cities and their money ; 5. Coinage and identity in pre-conquest Britain: 50 BC-AD 50 ; 6. Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces: Spain ; 7. 'Belonging' to Rome, 'remaining' Greek: Coinage and identity in Roman Macedonia ; 8. Religious-cultural identity in Thrace and Moesia Inferior ; 9. Local mythologies in the Greek East ; 10. Festivals and games in the cities of the East during the Roman Empire ; 11. Pergamum as paradigm ; 12. Information, legitimation or self-legitimation? Popular and elite designs on the coin types of Syria ; 13. City eras on Palestinian coinage ; 14. Coinage and identity: The Jewish evidence ; 15. The nome coins of Roman Egypt ; 16. The Roman West and the Roman East