Challenging traditional scholarship and methodologies, this volume employs digital technologies to explore the abundant record of coins minted in Antioch in Syria. The result is a new political, financial, and social history of the ancient city essential for specialists of ancient history and numismatics while remaining accessible to students.
Challenging traditional scholarship and methodologies, this volume employs digital technologies to explore the abundant record of coins minted in Antioch in Syria. The result is a new political, financial, and social history of the ancient city essential for specialists of ancient history and numismatics while remaining accessible to students.
KRISTINA M. NEUMANN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Houston and co-director of The SYRIOS Project, a web-based, interactive exhibit inviting the public into the history of ancient Syria (https://syrios.uh.edu/). She has worked with archaeological projects in Rome, Pompeii, and Israel.
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List of figures; Chronology of rulers; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Counting change; 2. Imperial beginnings (300 129 bce); 3. Imperial transitions (129 31 bce); 4. Provincial negotiations (31 bce-192 ce); 5. Imperial creations (192 284 ce); 6. Imperial city (284 450 ce); Conclusion; Appendix 1 S methodology for digitally analyzing coin finds; Appendix 2 list of excavation reports; Appendix 3 coin hoards with antioch coins; Bibliography; Index.