Research Catalog

Title

Coins, culture and history in the ancient world : numismatic and other studies in honor of Bluma L. Trell / edited by Lionel Casson and Martin Price.

Publication

Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 1981.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Trell, Bluma L., 1903-
• Casson, Lionel, 1914-2009.
• Price, Martin, 1939-1995

Description

205 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

This volume of essays is offered to Bluma Trell by her colleagues, to honor her for the important contributions she has made to classical studies and for the generous, contagious enthusiasm with which she has made them. -- Foreword.

Subject

• Trell, Bluma L., 1903-
• Geschichte 800 v. Chr.-500
• Numismatics, Ancient
• Classical antiquities
• classical archaeology
• Altertum
• Münze
• Numismatik
• Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Styles in the Alexander portraits on the coins of Lysimachus / Blanche R. Brown -- A new coin of Vima Kadphises, king of the Kushans / Joe Cribb -- A hoard dating the destruction of a temple at Palmyra . Aleksandra Krzyzanowska -- Une drachme d'Alexandre de Phères surfrappée en Crète / Georges Le Rider -- Architectural designs on papal coins / David M. Metcalf -- Une monnaie de bronze frappée à Pella (Décapole) sous Commode / Hélène Nicolet -- Numismatic evidence for the southeast (Forum) facade of the Basilica Ulpia / James Packer -- Paintings as a source of inspiration for ancient die engravers / Martin Price -- A rare Greek imperial coin of Gangra in Paphlangonia / Anne S. Robertson -- The basis from Puteoli: cities of Asia Minor in Julio-Claudian Italy / Cornelius Vermeule -- The Corsini Throne and the man in the pot / Larissa Bonfante -- The location of Adulis (Periplus Maris Erythraei 4) / Lionel Casson -- A footnote on heroic representations: Helen's web / Elsbeth B. Dusenbery -- Thoughts on the significance of the Latin component in the Welsh language / Robert A. Fowkes -- Map projection and the Peutinger Table / Annalina and Mario Levi -- Literati in the service of Roman emperors: politics before culture / Naphtali Lewis -- The Clysma-Phara-Haila Road on the Peutinger Table / Philip Mayerson -- The Temple of Messa on Lesbos / Hugh Plommer -- Old Testament motifs in the iconography of the British Museum's magical gems / Morton Smith.
• Labyrinth: Anatolian axe or Egyptian edifice? Robert R. Stieglitz.

ISBN

• 0814316840
• 9780814316849

LCCN

81010491

OCLC

• ocm07573116
• 7573116
• SCSB-31433

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library