Ancient Armenian Coins
Ancient Armenian Coins

Author: Jack Antoine Nurpetlian

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The Artaxiad Dynasty of Armenia ruled during the first two centuries BC and issu ed royal coinage both in silver and bronze. Unfortunately, the coinage minted by these kings is still not well understood. Additionally, the published material on the subject is inconsistent and largely speculative, if not contradictory. In 1978, Paul Z. Bedoukian was the first to study the coinage in his book Coinag e of the Artaxiads of Armenia. However, the corpus suffers from errors and some of the information it contains is by now outdated. Since the publication of this treatise 30 years ago, new information and publica tions have appeared in the numismatic world. Unfortunately, these still remain s cattered in various journals and are presented in different languages. The present thesis is a collection of all the scattered data and a reevaluation of the thus far published material, altogether presented in a single and compreh ensive body of work. Consequently, an attempt has been made to provide new insig ht into these coins and new interpretations regarding the attribution, the chron ology, the metrology, the circulation and the classification of the coinage.

Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene
Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene

Author: Michał Marciak

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-07-31

Total Pages: 597

ISBN-13: 9004350721

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In Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene, M. Marciak offers the first-ever comprehensive study of the history and culture of these three little-known countries of Northern Mesopotamia (3rd century BCE – 7th century CE). The book gives an overview of the historical geography, material culture, and political history of each of these countries. Furthermore, the summary offers a regional perspective by describing the history of this area as a subject of the political and cultural competition of great powers. This book answers both a recent growth of interest in ancient Mesopotamia as the frontier area, as well as the urgent need for documentation of the cultural heritage of a region that has recently become subject to the destructive influence of sectarian violence.

Sinews of Empire
Sinews of Empire

Author: Eivind Seland

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2017-06-30

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1785705997

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A recent surge of interest in network approaches to the study of the ancient world has enabled scholars of the Roman Empire to move beyond traditional narratives of domination, resistance, integration and fragmentation. This relational turn has not only offers tools to identify, map, visualize and, in some cases, even quantify interaction based on a variety of ancient source material, but also provides a terminology to deal with the everyday ties of power, trade, and ideology that operated within, below, and beyond the superstructure of imperial rule. Thirteen contributions employ a range of quantitative, qualitative and descriptive network approaches in order to provide new perspectives on trade, communication, administration, technology, religion and municipal life in the Roman Near East and adjacent regions.