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S04. GREECE 4. IBERIAN PENINSULA AND GALLIA: 4. GREECE 4. IBERIAN PENINSULA AND GALLIA
- Elena Moreno Pulido (Universidad de Cádiz)
The website monedaiberica.org offers a new complete catalogue of the ancient coinages of the Iberian Peninsula and the south of France struck between the 6th and 1st centuries BC. The new project has been developed within the framework of the international ARCH project (Ancient Coinages as Related Cultural Heritage) in collaboration with the University of Oxford and the Bibliothèque nationale...
Since the mid-20th century, the Mesas do Castelinho has been a point of reference in the archaeological mapping of southern Portugal. It was occupied at an early date, and its heyday coincided with the Roman presence in these territories between the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, when it controlled routes connecting the Algarve with Alentejo, taking advantage of the course of the Guadiana and the...
We present a previously unpublished issue of "Baetican Lead Tokens". They were found at Linares, Bailén, Jaén and, in short, Andalusia (Spain). The uniface and the lead issue was "struck" by Eucleratus. It should not necessarily be related to mining activity. According to epigraphic sources, Eucleratus is a Greek cognomen documented just once in Asia, specifically in Balat (Miletus) in a...
A small group of some twenty identical bronze coins with a “sacrificial bull” reverse come from a Hellenistic wreck of the early 3rd century B.C. found off La Tour Fondue at the tip of the Giens peninsula, Var, France. Despite their unmistakable Massaliot appearance and excellent style, these early pieces differ in a number of ways from the usual series. By considering also other coins of this...
