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Author Motta, Rosa Maria, author

Title Material culture and cultural identity : a study of Greek and Roman coins from Dora / Rosa Maria Motta
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Archaeopress archaeology
Archaeopress archaeology
Contents List of Abbreviations -- List of Classical References -- Chapter 1 Tel Dor's Context -- Chapter 2 Material Culture, Coins and Cultural Identity -- Chapter 3 The Mint of Dora -- Chapter 4 The Iconography of Dora's Coins -- Chapter 5 Epigraphic Analysis of Dora's Coins -- Chapter 6 Drawing Some Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Coin Catalogue -- Coin Plates
Summary The ancient harbour town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel has a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era. The story of its peoples can be assembled from a variety of historical and archaeological sources derived from the nearly thirty years of research at Tel Dor - the archaeological site of the ancient city. Each primary source offers a certain kind of information with its own perspective. In the attempt to understand the city during its Graeco-Roman years - a time when Dora reached its largest physical extent and gained enough importance to mint its own coins, numismatic sources provide key information. With their politically, socio-culturally and territorially specific iconography, Dora's coins indeed reveal that the city was self-aware of itself as a continuous culture, beginning with its Phoenician origins and continuing into its Roman present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Available through Archaeopress Digital Subscription Service
Audience Specialized
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 16, 2016)
Subject Coins, Greek -- Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
Coins, Roman -- Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Civilization
Coins, Greek
Coins, Roman
Excavations (Archaeology)
SUBJECT Dor (Extinct city) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93003732
Israel -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068693
Subject Israel
Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
Form Electronic book
Author Archaeopress, publisher.
ISBN 1784910937
9781784910938