Conveners
S45. ROME 11. ROMAN PROVINCIAL COINAGE 2
- Jerome Mairat (University of Oxford)
Les héros fondateurs appartiennent, comme d'autres figures mythiques, à la mémoire collective et à l’imaginaire collectif d’une société ou d’un groupe dans le monde romain. Ils étaient présentés dans les images monétaires reflétant les ambitions des villes et de leurs élites. J’examine les représentations sur les monnaies frappées au IIIe siècle, c'est-à-dire la période qui a fait des...
This paper discusses the Roman foundation ritual of the sulcus primigenius on 37 provincial coinages from the first century BCE to the third century CE. This ritual involved plowing a boundary for the new settlement, and was employed during the foundation of colonies in emulation of Romulus’ performance of the rite at Rome. On civic coinages, the ritual was usually represented by a togate...
Between the 1st c. BC and the 3rd c. AD cities across the Roman Empire could aspire for a colonial status. A new colony, modelled on Rome, imitated it in urban design, government system etc. This transformation would be reflected in the colonial coins.
In general, the Roman colonial coinage features a few distinctive features. First of all, most of them have a Latin inscription. Next, the...
While scholarship and corpora such as RIC and RPC suggest separate imperial and regional spheres of money recent research stresses the interrelations and interactions between center and periphery in terms of political, economic but also iconographic-cultural exchange. Building on our own studies of the coinage of Edessa and Carrhae which resemble imperial coin types associated with the...
