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XVI International Numismatic Congress

Sep 11 – 16, 2022
University of Warsaw
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RT 6 - RT POMPEII, MINTURNAE, MASSALIA, HISPANIA: NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRADE, 200-50 BCE

RT06
Sep 14, 2022, 9:00 AM
Old Library - Auditorium

Old Library - Auditorium

Conveners

RT 6 - RT POMPEII, MINTURNAE, MASSALIA, HISPANIA: NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRADE, 200-50 BCE

  • Clive Stannard (University of Leicester)

RT 6 - RT POMPEII, MINTURNAE, MASSALIA, HISPANIA: NUMISMATIC EVIDENCE FOR WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN TRADE, 200-50 BCE

  • Clive Stannard (Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick)

Description

Org.: Clive Stannard and Alejandro G. Sinner; moderator: Clive Stannard

In central Italy, a period of rapid economic growth followed the Second Punic War. It saw deep monetisation of markets, but also a severe dearth of small change. This obliged communities and social groups to make their own local, non-state coinages. A new understanding of these coinages at Minturnae and Pompeii, and in Latium generally, as well as coin finds from Minturnae and Rome, throw new light on burgeoning trade with Carthage, Gaul and Hispania, as well as with the Greek East.

• At Pompeii, the non-state coinages imitated Carthage, Ebusus, Massalia and Rome. Some relate to the wine trade to Gaul during the period before Pompeii’s defeat by Sulla in the Social War (89 BCE), as finds near Massalia show.
• There seem to be separate coinages associated with different groups of traders from Pompeii and Minturnae.
• Minturnae was active in the exploitation of the rich coastal silver/lead mines around Cartagena in the second century BCE, and those of the Sierra Morena in the interior, during the first century.
• Bronze coins and lead pieces with ‘Italo-Baetican’ types are found in both Latium and Baetica. They appear to have been made between about 150 and 50 BCE by a trading group which used the port of Minturnae.
• This group seems to have managed a publica societas handling agricultural goods at Corduba in the first century, and to have been involved in Roman politics in the 80s.

The Round Table will explore the social and legal nature of Campanian maritime trade, and its development over time, using numismatic, archaeological, epigraphic and historical data.

List of panelists:
Alejandro G. Sinner
Koenraad Verboven
Clive Stannard
Marta Barbato
Albert Ribera I Lacomba
Suzanne Frey-Kupper
Jean-Albert Chevillon
Michele Stefanile
Bartolomé Mora Serrano
Alfred Hirt

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  1. 629. Introduction
    Clive Stannard (Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick)
    9/14/22, 9:00 AM
    round table
  2. 567. Economy, Trade and Commercial Circuits in the Roman West (3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE
    Alejandro G. Sinner (University of Victoria, Canada)
    9/14/22, 9:10 AM
    round table
  3. 569. Pompeii and Minturnae: Numismatic evidence for trade with Carthage, Massalia and Spain
    Clive Stannard (Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick)
    9/14/22, 9:20 AM
    round table
  4. 570. Foreign and non-state coinage from the Roman sottosuolo
    Marta Barbato (Ministero delle Cultura, Italy, Direzione generale Archeologia, belle arti e paessagio, Funzionario archaeologico)
    9/14/22, 9:30 AM
    round table
  5. 572. Sicily and adjacent Islands at the crossroads of the Western Mediterranean: Cities and trade routes, and the role of their coins
    Suzanne Frey-Kupper (University of Warwick)
    9/14/22, 9:40 AM
    round table
  6. 573. Les reflets de Carthage dans les monnayages de l’Hispanie et de la Gaule
    Jean-Albert Chevillon (Groupe Numismatique Du Comtat Et de Provence)
    9/14/22, 9:50 AM
    round table
  7. 568. Small change for men, but a great leap for Romankind. Deep monetisation in Roman Italy, 200-50 BCE
    Koenraad Verboven (University of Ghent)
    9/14/22, 10:00 AM
    round table
  8. 575. Minturnae, Puteoli, Delos, Carthago Nova: Long distance Mediterranean trade during the Late Republican Age on the basis of the epigraphic evidence
    Michele Stefanile (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)
    9/14/22, 10:10 AM
    on-line round table
  9. 571. The ceramic evidence for central Italian trade with Carthage, Gaul and Spain
    Albert Ribera i Lacomba (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica - ICAC)
    9/14/22, 10:20 AM
    round table
  10. 576. The Spanish silver/lead mines
    Bartolomé Mora Serrano (University of Málaga)
    9/14/22, 11:00 AM
    round table
  11. 577. Mining and Roman imperialism. Mining, metal supply, provincial administration
    Alfred Hirt (University of Liverpool)
    9/14/22, 11:10 AM
    round table
  12. 578. Panel discussions
    Albert Ribera i Lacomba (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica - ICAC), Alejandro G. Sinner (University of Victoria, Canada), Alfred Hirt (University of Liverpool), Bartolomé Mora Serrano (University of Málaga), Clive Stannard (Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick), Girolamo Ferdinando De Simone (Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli), Jean-Albert Chevillon (Groupe Numismatique Du Comtat Et de Provence), Koenraad Verboven (University of Ghent), Marta Barbato (Ministero delle Cultura, Italy, Direzione generale Archeologia, belle arti e paessagio, Funzionario archaeologico), Michele Stefanile (Scuola Superiore Meridionale), Suzanne Frey-Kupper (University of Warwick)
    9/14/22, 11:20 AM
    round table

    a) Roman and Campanian settlement and trade, led by Michele Stefanile.
    b) Mining and Roman Imperialism: Mining, metal supply, provincial administration, led by Alfred Hirt.
    c) The social and economic institutions of trade in the western Mediterranean in the last two centuries BCE, led by Koenraad Verboven.
    d) Conclusions, and opportunities and priorities for further work, led by Suzanne Frey-Kupper.

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