Material culture and cultural identity : : a study of Greek and Roman coins from Dora / / Rosa Maria Motta.

• Superior document: Archaeopress archaeology
• VerfasserIn: Motta, Rosa Maria,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Archaeopress archaeology.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (117 pages) :; illustrations.

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Classical References -- Chapter 1 Tel Dor's Context -- 1.1 Introduction and Sources -- 1.2 Geographical Identity of Tel Dor -- 1.3 The Historical Antecedent: From Canaanite to Persian Dor -- 1.4 Historical Identity: Greek Dora -- 1.5 Historical Identity: Hasmonean Dora -- 1.6 Historical Identity: Roman Dora -- 1.7 Excavations of Tel Dor -- 1.8 Coins Excavated at Tel Dor -- Fig. 1.1. Map of Northern Israel -- Fig. 1.2. Map of Coastal Plains of Israel -- Fig. 1.3. Kurkar Ridge (Tel Dor digital library) -- Fig. 1.4. Kurkar Stones (photo by C. Majer -- Fig. 1.5 Phoenician Bichrom Vessel from Tel Dor (Area D2 -- Fig. 1.6 Assyrian Cylindrical Seal - Tel Dor Photo Archive -- Fig. 1.7. Sherds of Assyrian Style Bowls (Tel Dor Photo Archive) -- Fig. 1.8. Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, King of Sidon. Louvre Museum. AO 4806. -- Fig. 1.9. Persian and Hellenistic Dor (Tel Dor Photo Archive) -- Fig. 1. 10. Reconstruction of Eastern Continuous Outer Wall During the Hellenistic Period -- Fig. 1.11. Imported Hellenistic West Slope' Ware found at Tel Dor -- Fig. 1.12. Opus Vermiculatum of the Mask and Garland Type (Tel Dor Photo Archive) -- Fig. 1.13. Lead Sling Projectile Inscribed in Greek and Phoenician (Tel Dor Photo Archive) -- Fig. 1.14. Aerial View of Roman Dora (Tel Dor Photo Archive) -- Fig. 1.15. Excavations of Roman Areas (Iftah Shalev) -- Fig. 1.16. Roman House with Mosaics (John Berg) -- Fig. 1.17. Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period Jewelry -- Fig. 1.19. Location of Byzantine Church in Relation to Tel Dor (Google Map) -- Fig. 1. 20. Various Areas Opened at Tel Dor During the course of Excavations (drawing by Sveta Matskevich) -- Fig. 1. 21. Athenian Coin Excavated at Tel Dor (photo by R. Motta).

Fig. 1.22. Ptolemaic Coin Excavated at Tel Dor (photo by R. Motta) -- Fig. 1.23. Jewish Coins Found at Tel Dor (Stern 2002) -- Fig. 1. 24. Roman Coins Found at Tel Dor (Stern 2002, 184) -- Chapter 2 Material Culture, Coins and Cultural Identity -- 2.1 Definition of Culture -- 2.2 Material Culture, Semiotics, and Coins -- 2.3 Cultural Identity in the Greek and Roman Provinces -- 2.4 Expressing Dora's Identity in a Provincial Setting -- Chapter 3 The Mint of Dora -- 3.1 The Concept of Money -- 3.2 The Mint of Dora and its Production History -- 3.3 Circulation of Dora Coins throughout Israel -- Table 1: Roman Period Issues -- Table 2: Denominations of Dora's imperial coins at the Israel Antiquities Authority -- Table 3: Provenance of Dora's Coins at the Israel Antiquities Authority -- Chapter 4 The Iconography of Dora's Coins -- 4.2 Coin Imagery and its Function -- 4.3 Royal Figures -- 4.4 Imperial Figures -- 4.5 Religious Iconography -- 4.6 Architecture on Dora's Coins -- 4.7 Nautical/Marine Symbols -- 4.8 Agricultural Symbols -- Fig. 4.1. Portrait of Augustus. British Museum, Inv. 1812,0615.1 -- Fig. 4.2. Vespasian, British Museum, London. -- Fig. 4.3 Titus, British Museum, London. -- Fig. 4.4 Trajan, British Museum. London. 1805,0703.93 -- Fig. 4. 5. Hadrian. Musei Capitolini. Rome MC 817 -- Fig. 4.6. Antoninus Pius. British Museum. London. -- Fig. 4.7. Septimius Severus. British Museum, London. -- Fig. 4.8. Septimius Clasping Hands With His Son Caracalla, While Tyche Fortuna Presides Over The Scene. Arch Of Septimius Severus. Leptis Magna. -- Fig. 4.10. Julia Domna, Musei Capitolini, Rome. -- Fig. 4.9. Aureus, 161 CE. -- Fig. 4.11. Julia Domna. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek. Munich. -- Fig. 4.12. Young Geta. -- Fig. 4.13. Young Caracalla -- Fig. 4.14. Young Plautilla -- Fig. 4. 16. Caracalla, New York Metropolitan, New York.

Fig. 4.15. Caracalla. British Museum, London -- Fig. 4. 17. Tyche of Antioch by Euthychides (Roman copy) -- Fig. 4.18. Tyche with Cornucopia and Rudder. -- Fig. 4. 19. Relief of Tyche of Dura. Photo Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven. -- Fig. 4. 21. Tyche of Tyre. 117-118 CE. BMC 344. -- Fig. 4.20. Tyche of Arados, 152 BCE. BMC 97 -- Fig. 4.22. Tyche of Tripolis. 22-21 BCE. BMC 206. -- Fig. 4.23. Tyche of Byblos. 1st c. BCE. BMC 12 -- Fig. 4.24. Tyche of Ashkelon. 76-77 CE. Rosenberg 30 -- Fig. 4.25. Tyche of Antioch ad Orontem, 127-8 CE. BMC 105 -- Fig. 4.26. Tyche of Sidon, 78-7 BCE. Lindgren 2324. -- Fig. 4.27. Tyche of Caesarea, 248 CE. -- Fig. 4.28. Tyche of Ashkelon, 138-161 CE, RPC 6384 -- Fig. 4.29. Tyche of Tiberias, 177-192 CE, RPC 6313 -- Fig. 4.30. Tyche of Gaza. 197 CE. Mionnet 169 -- Fig. 4.31. Tyche of Marcianopolis 197 CE Moushmov 394 -- Fig. 4.32. Tyche of Aelia Capitolina, 161-169 CE. RPC 6413. -- Fig. 4.33. Tyche of Berytus, 161-169 CE. RPC 6756 -- Fig. 4.34. Zeus/Jupiter -- Fig. 4.35. Zeus/Ammon. -- Fig. 4. 40. Zeus Strategos, Amastris (Bithynia, 101 CE). -- Fig. 4.36. Zeus/Jupiter -- Fig. 4.37. Poseidon, LIMC No. 42, p.357 -- Fig. 4.38 Poseidon, LIMC No. 50 -- Fig. 4.39. Poseidon, LIMC No. 54 -- Fig. 4.41. Zeus Strategos, Amastris (Bithynia, 101 CE) RPC 4897 -- Fig. 4.42. Silver Stater from Metapontum (550 BCE). -- Fig. 4.43. Triobol from Serdaioi (520 BCE). BMC 395. -- Chapter 5 Epigraphic Analysis of Dora's Coins -- 5.1. Coin Legends as Inscriptions -- 5.2 Dating Dora's Coins within their Regional Context -- 5.3 City Titles on Dora's Coins -- 5.4. Imperial Titulature on Dora's Coins -- 5.5 Language and Identity -- Chapter 6 Drawing Some Conclusions -- 6.1. Brief Comparative Study -- 6.2. Caesarea Maritima -- 6.3. Caesarea and the Flavian Mint -- 6.4. Conclusions.

Fig. 6.1. ΙΟΥΔΑΙΑΣ ΕΑΛWΚΥΙΑΣ from Caesarea (81AD), -- Bibliography -- Coin Catalogue -- Coin Plates -- Plate 1 -- Plate 2 -- Plate 3 -- Plate 4.