Conveners
S08. GREECE 8. NORTH-WESTERN GREECE AND MACEDONIA
- Jarosław Bodzek (Jagiellonian University)
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Sanja Bitrak (Archaeological Museum of North Macedonia )9/13/22, 5:00 PMoral presentation
Archaeological excavations on the site Carevi Kuli, Strumica brought in a significant amount of numismatic material, including 262 individual finds, 8 mini-hoards (3 to 11 pcs.) and 3 hoards (18 to 21 pcs). Carevi Kuli is located on a hill which rises southwest of the city of Strumica where important ancient roads intersected: the ancient road Astibo-Astrajon-Dober-Idomene-Thessaloniki. Two of...
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William Bubelis (Washington University in St. Louis, John Max Wulfing Collection of Ancient Coins and Related Objects)9/13/22, 5:20 PMoral presentation
Dated to c. 250-210 on independent grounds, a newly published bronze khalkous (1.9g) of the Khaones (E. Baldi and W. Bubelis in Butrint 7) likely belongs to the dynamic political situation in Epeiros in 234/3 BC, when the Molossian Kingdom fell and its partner the Epeirote Symmachy was replaced by the Epeirote Koinon. The new khalkous features types (Artemis/thunderbolt in wreath with...
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Georgia Tsouvala (Illinois State University ), Goulielma-Kyriaki Avgerinou, Lee Brice (Western Illinois University)9/13/22, 5:40 PMoral presentation
In 1995 a hoard of 508 coins was found inside the wall of a late Hellenistic building in the Kasfiki field, at Palaiopolis on the island of Kerkyra, Greece. The archaeological context indicates the Kasfiki hoard was probably buried in the late third century BCE during the siege of Kerkyra by Pyrrhus of Epirus. This hoard is of great interest because it includes only silver drachms and...
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