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NUMISMATICS
The Coin Collection of the American University of Beirut
Museum: Palestine and Phoenicia
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Dimitri C. Baramki
This volume was intended to be the first of a series
on the AUB Archaeological Museum's large collection of
11,000 coins. A selection of 2200 coins from the total
collection is here thoroughly catalogued, with
photographs, and indexed by Emperor and by type. For
their classification, the system followed by the
British Museum has been adopted.
English, 1974, 339 pages, 32 plates, 2 indexes,
cloth, $20. |
Coins Exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of the
American University of Beirut
Dimitri C. Baramki
This volume presents a selection of 589 of the large
collection of 11,000 coins in the archaeological museum of
the American University of Beirut. The coins reflect the
grouping and frequency of the large collection. Each coin
is described, with its place of origin and a reproduction
of its inscription.
English, 1968, 196 pages, 11 plates, paper, $5.
Near Eastern Numismatics, Iconography, Epigraphy and
History: Studies in Honor of George C. Miles
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Edited by Dickran K. Kouymjian, with assistance
from Jere L. Backarach
George Miles was Curator of Islamic Coins for the
American Numismatic Society, and a former Chief Curator
and Executive Director of the ANS. The essays in this
volume were chosen to mark his retirement, and
concentrate on the subjects which occupied his own
scholarly research: numismatics, epigraphy, iconography
and history of the Islamic, pre-Islamic and Byzantine
worlds.
English, 1974, 503
pages, cloth, $25. |
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Small Change in Ancient Beirut – The Coin Finds
from BEY 006 and 045: Persian, Hellenistic, Roman,
and Byzantine Periods by Kevin Butcher,
Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the
University of Warwick, is the first of a special
series of Berytus Archaeological Studies
(vol. XLV-XLVI), subtitled “Archaeology of the
Beirut Souks.” It presents the results of
excavations conducted by an archaeological team from
the American University of Beirut (AUB) in
collaboration with a group of British archaeologists
and organizations at a group of sites in and around
the souks of post-war Beirut between 1994 and
1997.
This volume deals with the numismatic and economic
history of Beirut and the region based on roughly
7000 coins excavated stratigraphically from the AUB
Souks excavations. Almost all of the coins found
represent low denominations made of base metals. In
light of the relatively few coin reports that have
been published from the area of the eastern
Mediterranean, this issue of Berytus is a valuable
resource for both numismatists and scholars of
ancient exchange and trade. It provides a detailed
analysis of the coins, as well as selected
comparisons to coins discovered at other sites in
order to put the findings into a wider regional
context. Furthermore, it provides an important
point of reference for the forthcoming publication
of the other finds from the AUB Souks excavations.
Berytus Archaeological Studies is an annual
publication of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at
the American University of Beirut. It has been
published continuously since 1934. |
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