adventures in my head
Every time I think I might quit twitter it gives me more goodies for my work. Below is an extract from this 2021 multi-authored paper relating to coins (p. 176). More coins however have been found and are awaiting publication, more Punic but also Roman and Greek. Needless to say I’m over the moon a… Continue reading Egadi Coins…
This is a follow up to a literary survey done earlier this year also on this blog. Egadi Ram inscriptions are excluding here, but remain our earliest testimony of this language. I’ve excluded inscriptions post 50 BCE. Cf. Bernard 2018: 155-156 on probatio in early Roman state contracts. I’m dying to write up my thoughts… Continue reading Republican inscriptions using ‘probare’
I’m concerned at present as to what probare might mean in Pliny NH 33.132 and most of my thoughts on this verb in Roman political discourse go back to the third century: probare is something that happens to both bronze coins and also ship rams in the 1st Punic War (earlier post, follow up; see… Continue reading The verb “probare”
Main points. A brain dump. 91 BCE – Drusus is said to have mixed bronze with the silver as plebeian tribune. Still, even after testing by drilling, there is no evidence this is true for the denarii of these years. The Plinian tradition(s) want to cast Drusus as greedy and a liar, the historiographer in… Continue reading 98 of 234: Money issues in the early 80s BCE, preliminaries
Update later the same day. Original post below. I write these as I dive in an I like to preserve my train of thought. And, then sometimes post publication new stuff is shared with me by generous colleagues, like Seth Bernard. Who found that Crawford has tracked down records of this hoard in 2003, AND… Continue reading 16 out of 234 days: 1548 Firmum Picenum Hoard
Good morning and (may it be a) happy New Year (for us all). I’m not on holiday as I had expected and am trying to ease myself into work and remember what I love about it. When I need to do that I often look at pictures to see what I see. I decided to… Continue reading Fabric, Design, and Manufacture (RRC 14/3)
Ridiculously excited to read this well illustrated article on the Belgammel Ram, esp. because of how different the metallurgical profile is from preliminary tests of the Egadi Rams. LOW LEAD only 8%. Adams, J.R., Antoniadou, A., Hunt, C.O., Bennett, P., Croudace, I.W., Taylor, R.N., Pearce, R.B., Earl, G.P., Flemming, N.C., Moggeridge, J., Whiteside, T., Oliver,… Continue reading Belgammel Ram
If you’re only a fraction as fascinated as I am by the Egadi Rams, you still should watch this amazing presentation. I saw a version at the SCS-AIA and cannot stop thinking about it:
This post is hot on the heels of the last. There is a lot going on in the numismatic world of SE Italy during the Hannibalic War. I wish I had a copy of Marchetti’s Histoire économique et monétaire de la deuxième querre punique (1975) to hand. I can’t let go my concerns about the CA series… Continue reading Some Habits at SE Italian Mints? Signing Quaestors and Overstriking?
First a little context: To my mind one of the most interesting aspects of the secondary marks on the early denarius, victoriatus and related issues is when they begin to experiment with different types of secondary symbols. Most of the secondary symbols that appear on the coinage of the Hannibal War had already been in use… Continue reading Representing the Defeated Enemy, or the Appropriation of Symbols
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