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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814576403321

Autore

Knapp Robert C

Titolo

Excavations at Nemea III : the coins / / Robert C. Knapp and John D. Mac Isaac

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

9786612356766

0-520-92790-7

1-282-35676-3

1-59875-529-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxi, 290 pages, 32 plates) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Excavations at Nemea ; ; 3

Altri autori (Persone)

Mac IsaacJohn D

Disciplina

737.4938

Soggetti

Coins, Greek

Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece

Nemea Site (Greece)

Greece Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Selected Bibliography and Abbreviations -- Specialized Terminology and Abbreviations -- Elevations, Grid References, and Measurements -- Part I. the classical, Hellenistic, roman provincial, and roman coins -- Part II. the early Christian and later coin finds from Nemea -- Index of Subjects, Ancient Sources, and Modern Scholars -- Indices to the Catalogue -- Index of Inventoried Coins -- Plates

Sommario/riassunto

Since 1974 the University of California at Berkeley has been sponsoring extensive excavations at the Panhellenic athletic festival center of ancient Nemea in the modern Greek province of Korinthia. With its well-documented excavation and clear historical context, the site offers an excellent opportunity for investigation and analysis. This volume, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than three thousand legible coins from all over the ancient world that have been unearthed there. The coins, which are mostly bronze but show an unusually high proportion of silver, reflect the periods of greatest activity at the site-the late Archaic



and Early Classical, the Early Hellenistic, the Early Christian, and the Byzantine. More than a compendium of data, the study breaks new ground with its analysis and contextualization of numismatic evidence in an archaeological setting.