Material Culture and Cultural Identity: A Study of Greek and Roman Coins from Dora

Rosa Maria Motta

• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781784910921
• eBook ISBN: 9781784910938
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

The ancient harbor 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• List of Abbreviations
• List of Classical References
• Chapter 1 Tel Dor’s Context
• Fig. 1.1. Map of Northern Israel
• Fig. 1.2. Map of Coastal Plains of Israel
• Fig. 1.3. Kurkar Ridge (Tel Dor digital library)
• Fig. 1.4. Kurkar Stones (photo by C. Majer
• Fig. 1.5 Phoenician Bichrom Vessel from Tel Dor (Area D2
• Fig. 1.6 Assyrian Cylindrical Seal – Tel Dor Photo Archive
• Fig. 1.7. Sherds of Assyrian Style Bowls (Tel Dor Photo Archive)
• Fig. 1.8. Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II, King of Sidon. Louvre Museum. AO 4806.
• Fig. 1.9. Persian and Hellenistic Dor (Tel Dor Photo Archive)
• Fig. 1. 10. Reconstruction of Eastern Continuous Outer Wall During the Hellenistic Period
• Fig. 1.11. Imported Hellenistic West Slope’ Ware found at Tel Dor
• Fig. 1.12. Opus Vermiculatum of the Mask and Garland Type (Tel Dor Photo Archive)
• Fig. 1.13. Lead Sling Projectile Inscribed in Greek and Phoenician (Tel Dor Photo Archive)
• Fig. 1.14. Aerial View of Roman Dora (Tel Dor Photo Archive)
• Fig. 1.15. Excavations of Roman Areas (Iftah Shalev)
• Fig. 1.16. Roman House with Mosaics (John Berg)
• Fig. 1.17. Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period Jewelry
• Fig. 1.19. Location of Byzantine Church in Relation to Tel Dor (Google Map)
• Fig. 1. 20. Various Areas Opened at Tel Dor During the course of Excavations (drawing by Sveta Matskevich)
• Fig. 1. 21. Athenian Coin Excavated at Tel Dor (photo by R. Motta)
• Fig. 1.22. Ptolemaic Coin Excavated at Tel Dor (photo by R. Motta)
• Fig. 1.23. Jewish Coins Found at Tel Dor (Stern 2002)
• Fig. 1. 24. Roman Coins Found at Tel Dor (Stern 2002, 184)
• Chapter 2 Material Culture, Coins and Cultural Identity
• Chapter 3 The Mint of Dora
• Table 1: Roman Period Issues
• Table 2: Denominations of Dora’s imperial coins at the Israel Antiquities Authority
• Table 3: Provenance of Dora’s Coins at the Israel Antiquities Authority
• Chapter 4 The Iconography of Dora’s Coins
• Fig. 4.1. Portrait of Augustus. British Museum, Inv. 1812,0615.1
• Fig. 4.2. Vespasian, British Museum, London.
• Fig. 4.3 Titus, British Museum, London.
• Fig. 4.4 Trajan, British Museum. London. 1805,0703.93
• Fig. 4. 5. Hadrian. Musei Capitolini. Rome MC 817
• Fig. 4.6. Antoninus Pius. British Museum. London.
• Fig. 4.7. Septimius Severus. British Museum, London.
• Fig. 4.8. Septimius Clasping Hands With His Son Caracalla, While Tyche Fortuna Presides Over The Scene. Arch Of Septimius Seve us. Leptis Magna.
• Fig. 4.10. Julia Domna, Musei Capitolini, Rome.
• Fig. 4.9. Aureus, 161 CE.
• Fig. 4.11. Julia Domna. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek. Munich.
• Fig. 4.12. Young Geta.
• Fig. 4.13. Young Caracalla
• Fig. 4.14. Young Plautilla
• Fig. 4. 16. Caracalla, New York Metropolitan, New York.
• Fig. 4.15. Caracalla. British Museum, London
• Fig. 4. 17. Tyche of Antioch by Euthychides (Roman copy)
• Fig. 4.18. Tyche with Cornucopia and Rudder.
• Fig. 4. 19. Relief of Tyche of Dura. Photo Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven.
• Fig. 4. 21. Tyche of Tyre. 117-118 CE. BMC 344.
• Fig. 4.20. Tyche of Arados, 152 BCE. BMC 97
• Fig. 4.22. Tyche of Tripolis. 22-21 BCE. BMC 206.
• Fig. 4.23. Tyche of Byblos. 1st c. BCE. BMC 12
• Fig. 4.24. Tyche of Ashkelon. 76-77 CE. Rosenberg 30
• Fig. 4.25. Tyche of Antioch ad Orontem, 127-8 CE. BMC 105
• Fig. 4.26. Tyche of Sidon, 78-7 BCE. Lindgren 2324.
• Fig. 4.27. Tyche of Caesarea, 248 CE.
• Fig. 4.28. Tyche of Ashkelon, 138-161 CE, RPC 6384
• Fig. 4.29. Tyche of Tiberias, 177-192 CE, RPC 6313
• Fig. 4.30. Tyche of Gaza. 197 CE. Mionnet 169
• Fig. 4.31. Tyche of Marcianopolis 197 CE Moushmov 394
• Fig. 4.32. Tyche of Aelia Capitolina, 161-169 CE. RPC 6413.
• Fig. 4.33. Tyche of Berytus, 161-169 CE. RPC 6756
• Fig. 4.34. Zeus/Jupiter
• Fig. 4.35. Zeus/Ammon.
• Fig. 4. 40. Zeus Strategos, Amastris (Bithynia, 101 CE).
• Fig. 4.36. Zeus/Jupiter
• Fig. 4.37. Poseidon, LIMC No. 42, p.357
• Fig. 4.38 Poseidon, LIMC No. 50
• Fig. 4.39. Poseidon, LIMC No. 54
• Fig. 4.41. Zeus Strategos, Amastris (Bithynia, 101 CE) RPC 4897
• Fig. 4.42. Silver Stater from Metapontum (550 BCE).
• Fig. 4.43. Triobol from Serdaioi (520 BCE). BMC 395.
• Chapter 5 Epigraphic Analysis of Dora’s Coins
• Chapter 6 Drawing Some Conclusions
• Fig. 6.1. ΙΟΥΔΑΙΑΣ ΕΑΛWΚΥΙΑΣ from Caesarea (81AD),
• Bibliography
• Coin Catalogue
• Coin Plates
• Plate 1
• Plate 2
• Plate 3
• Plate 4