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Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
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Price: Rs.10,644.90
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ISBN: 9780199265268
Publishing Date: 2005-00-00
Edition: 1st ed
Cover Type: Hard Cover
Author: Christopher Howgego
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Description

  • Identity is a 'hot' topic at the moment, and coinage and identity are currently of particular interest because of the Euro debate
  • Covers the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300
  • Accessible to readers without specialist numismatic knowledge
  • Excellent plates, illustrating an extensive selection of key coins
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.

Readership: Ancient historians and archaeologists; professional academic numismatists (in museums and universities) and coin collectors; anthropologists and social historians interested in issues of identity.

List of Contents

1: Christopher Howgego: Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces
2: George Williamson: Aspects of identity
3: Volker Heuchert: The chronological development of Roman provincial coin iconography
4: Peter Weiss: The cities and their money
5: Jonathan Williams: Coinage and identity in pre-conquest Britain: 50 BC-AD 50
6: Pere P. Ripollès: Coinage and identity in the Roman provinces: Spain
7: Sophia Kremydi-Sicilianou: `Belonging' to Rome, `remaining' Greek: Coinage and identity in Roman Macedonia
8: Ulrike Peter: Religious-cultural identity in Thrace and Moesia Inferior
9: Simon Price: Local mythologies in the Greek East
10: Dietrich O. A. Klose: Festivals and games in the cities of the East during the Roman Empire
11: Bernhard Weisser: Pergamum as paradigm
12: Kevin Butcher: Information, legitimation or self-legitimation? Popular and elite designs on the coin types of Syria
13: Alla Kushnir-Stein: City eras on Palestinian coinage
14: Martin Goodman: Coinage and identity: The Jewish evidence
15: Angelo Geissen: The nome coins of Roman Egypt
16: Andrew Burnett: The Roman West and the Roman East

Reviews

 

"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 work"

Author(s)

Edited by Christopher Howgego, 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, 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)., and Andrew Burnett, Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum.

Contributors: 
Andrew Burnett is Deputy Director and Keeper of Coins and Medals, British Museum.
Kevin Butcher is Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology, American University of Beirut.
Angelo Geissen is Keeper of the collection of coins of Alexandria and Asia Minor in the Institut für Altertumskunde, University of Cologne.
Martin Goodman is Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Oxford.
Volker Heuchert is Collections Manager of the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum.
Christopher Howgego is Senior Assistant Keeper in the Ashmolean Museum and Reader in Greek and Roman Numismatics, University of Oxford.
Dietrich O. A. Klose is curator of ancient Greek and 16th-19th century coins and medals at the Staatliche Münzsammlung, Munich.
Sophia Kremydi-Sicilianou is Researcher at the Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.
Alla Kushnir-Stein is a senior lecturer at the Department of Classical Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University.
Ulrike Peter is head of the Griechisches Münzwerk of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.
Simon Price is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Pere Pau Ripollès is Professor of Epigraphy and Numismatics at the University of Valencia.
Peter Weiss is Professor of Ancient History, University of Kiel.
Bernhard Weisser is curator of Ancient Coins at the Münzkabinett in Berlin.
Jonathan Williams is curator of Roman and Iron Age coins in the Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum.
George Williamson is in the Eastern Adriatic Department of the Foreign Office.
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