| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Archaeopress archaeology |
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Archaeopress archaeology
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| 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)
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Coins, Roman -- Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
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Civilization
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Coins, Greek
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Coins, Roman
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Excavations (Archaeology)
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Dor (Extinct city)
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Israel -- Civilization.
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Israel
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Israel -- Dor (Extinct city)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Archaeopress, publisher.
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| ISBN |
1784910937 |
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9781784910938 |
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