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A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.
Author : Liv Mariah Yarrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2021-05-06
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107013739
A richly-illustrated introduction to the various ways in which coins can help illuminate the history of the Roman republic.
Author : Frank L. Holt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2021
Category : ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN : 019751765X
"Money may seem hopelessly mundane and culturally meaningless, but it has dominated--and documented--world history since the time of the ancient Greeks. This heavily illustrated book provides a spirited account of the first coinages and their living descendants in our pockets and purses. It explains how people from Jesus to The Beatles have used numismatics to explore the social, political, economic, and religious history of the world"--
Author : Lisa Kallet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1107015375
The first book to illustrate and integrate coinage comprehensively as historical evidence for the Athenian empire.
Author : Rosa Maria Motta
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1784910937
Presents numismatics from the ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel with a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era.
Author : David H. Wenkel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,14 MB
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0567670759
Coins have long been a vital part of the discipline of classical studies of the ancient world. However, many scholars have commented that coins have not been adequately integrated into the study of the New Testament. This book provides an interdisciplinary gateway to the study of numismatics for those who are engaged in biblical studies. Wenkel argues that coins from the 1st century were cultural texts with communicative power. He establishes a simple yet comprehensive hermeneutic that defines coins as cultural texts and explains how they might be interpreted today. Once coins are understood to be cultural texts, Wenkel proceeds to explain how these texts can be approached from three angles. First, the world in front of the coin is defined as the audience who initially read and responded to coins as cultural texts. The entire Roman Empire used coins for payment. Second, the world of the coin refers to the coin itself – the combination of inscriptions and images. This combination of inscription and image was used ubiquitously as a tool of propaganda. Third, the world behind the coin refers to the world of power and production behind the coins. This third angle explores the concept of authorship of coins as cultural texts.
Author : Nanouschka Myrberg Burström
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 22,59 MB
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317149041
This edited collection analyses the phenomenon of coin use for religious and ritual purposes in different cultures and across different periods of time. It proposes an engagement with the theory and interpretation of the ‘material turn’ with numismatic evidence, and an evidence-based series of discussions to offer a fuller, richer and fresh account of coin use in ritual contexts. No extensive publication has previously foregrounded coins in such a model, despite the fact that coins constitute an integrated part of the material culture of most societies today and of many in the past. Here, interdisciplinary discussions are organised around three themes: coin deposit and ritual practice, the coin as economic object and divine mediator, and the value and meaning of coin offering. Although focusing on the medieval period in Western Europe, the book includes instructive cases from the Roman period until today. The collection brings together well-established and emerging scholars from archaeology, art history, ethnology, history and numismatics, and great weight is given to material evidence which can complement and contradict the scarce written sources.
Author : Sunil Chandra Ray
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Coins
ISBN :
Covers the period 1944-45 to 1995 and investigations mainly restricted to excavations in India.
Author : Juliette Fritsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 14,15 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 1135767955
Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a range of papers by leading academics, museum learning professionals, graduate researchers and curators from Europe, the USA and Canada. The papers present diverse new research and practice in the field, and open up debate about the role, design and process of exhibition interpretation in museums, art galleries and historic sites. The authors represent both academics and practitioners, and are affiliated with high quality institutions of broad geographical scope. The result is a strong, consistent representation of current thinking across the theory, methodology and practice of interpretation design for learning in museums.
Author : Vesta Curtis
Publisher : Spink Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 37,60 MB
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781912667444
One hundred years after the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander of Macedon, we see the emergence of a new Iranian dynasty that, by 140 BC, has extended its rule to Western Iran and Mesopotamia. The Arsacid Parthians, famous for their riding and archery skills, became Rome's most dangerous enemy east of the River Euphrates. Encounters between Roman generals and Parthian envoys are vividly described in Classical accounts of a biased nature, and unfortunately no such sources are available from the Parthian side. Here, the most important primary source is the coinage of the period c. 248 BC - AD 224. These coins reveal important information about the development of the Parthian state, its expansion and the role of the king, who, by 111 BC, had adopted the ancient Persian title of King of Kings. Rome's interference in the region begins during the reign of Mithradates II's and culminates in the devastating defeat of the Roman army under the General Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BC. Over the next 300 years these two superpowers fight for territorial control in the region, particularly over Mesopotamia and Armenia. This book will highlight the rise to power of the Parthians, the long conflict with Rome, as well as the culture and religion of the Parthian Empire as seen through the coinage of this period. It is co-published with the British Museum to accompany an exhibition of the same name which opens there in April 2020.
Author : Svein H. Gullbekk
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,14 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Gold coins
ISBN : 9788299945301