Robert Knapp
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231696
- eISBN:
- 9780520927902
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231696.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
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. ...
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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 book, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than 3,000 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.Less
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 book, the third in a series of publications on Nemea, is a detailed presentation of the more than 3,000 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.
Robert C. Knapp and John D. Mac Isaac
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520231696
- eISBN:
- 9780520927902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520231696.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Almost half of the coins were originally found to be from the Early Christian period. From this period, the Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus and the Early Hellenistic Stadium were also discovered. The coins ...
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Almost half of the coins were originally found to be from the Early Christian period. From this period, the Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus and the Early Hellenistic Stadium were also discovered. The coins that originated from the Early Christian period were labeled as the legacy of cultural horizons: (1) agricultural settlements of the 5th and 6th centuries after Christ on the one hand; and (2) the 12th and 13th centuries after Christ on the other. Each of these horizons has a dominant numismatic component. After a period of some 30 years represented by only two coins, the numismatic record at Nemea resumes with coins of Helena—the issue celebrating the dedication of Constantinople, the last issue of Constantine I Divus, and the first issue of Constantine's sons as his successor. It is much doubted that many of those coins came to the Sanctuary area at a time which was very close to their issue date.Less
Almost half of the coins were originally found to be from the Early Christian period. From this period, the Sanctuary of Nemean Zeus and the Early Hellenistic Stadium were also discovered. The coins that originated from the Early Christian period were labeled as the legacy of cultural horizons: (1) agricultural settlements of the 5th and 6th centuries after Christ on the one hand; and (2) the 12th and 13th centuries after Christ on the other. Each of these horizons has a dominant numismatic component. After a period of some 30 years represented by only two coins, the numismatic record at Nemea resumes with coins of Helena—the issue celebrating the dedication of Constantinople, the last issue of Constantine I Divus, and the first issue of Constantine's sons as his successor. It is much doubted that many of those coins came to the Sanctuary area at a time which was very close to their issue date.
