Coins and their cities. Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palestine

297 Pages·1977·30.977 MB·English

by  Martin Jessop Price, Bluma L. Trell

COINS AND THEIR CITIES

COINS AND THEIR CITIES
Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome,
and Palestine
by
MARTIN JESSOP PRICE
and
BLUMA L. TRELL
V. C. Vecchi and Sons, Wayne State University Press,
23 Great Smith Street, Detroit,
London SW1 Michigan 48202
1977
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Most of the coins were photographed by M. Price. A few,from the British Museum,
were the work of Ray Gardner; those from New York were by Toni Di Biase; those
from Athens by J. Kroll; and those from Vienna are courtesy of G. Dembski.
Acknowledgements for other photographs are noted in the text.
To the following we are indebted for practical help and encouragement:
Marla Cruz Perez Acorta - A. Adams - Howard I— Adelson - Ekrom Akurgal - Yucel Akyurek- American Council of
Learned Societies - C.H. Anscombe - Marlon M. Archibald - Vahit Armagan - Ceuzlye Artuk - Ibrahim Artuk -
Bernard Ashmole - M. Avl-Yonah - K. Ayllng - Jean Babeion - Roger S. Bagnall - Donald M. Bailey - Anton Barner -
Richard D. Barnett - P. Bastien - Gabriella Battaglia - Alfred R. Bellinger - 1— Belova - Rose Belsky - Seth Benardete -
Anna Benjamin - Adolf Borger - Peter Berghaus - Elie J. Bickerman - Margarete Bieber - Albert Blllhelmer - Ann
Blrchall - Sylvia Bird - George5 BBllaakkee -- HHaarrrr y Bober - Phyllis Pray Bober — Larissa Bonfante - Annemarle Boning -
Lore Borner - E. Bosch - Ber•nnaarrdd VV.. BBootthmer - Angle Bowlin - Jean Bram - Richard Breaden - Otto Brendel -
Franklin Brill - Blanche R. Brown - Donald F. Brown - Mary. Kathleen Brown - Milton Brown - Guido Bruck -
Theodore V. Buttrey Jr. - H^Butzmann - Herbert A. Cahn - Francis D. Campbell, Jr. - Marie Cantion - Vincenzo
Cappellettl - Jennifer Cargill Thoirm pson - Robert A. G. Carson - Judy Casson - Lionel Casson - S.A. Castle - Betty
Chag,arls - .M.._o hamed Chaleb - M.Chapoutot-Remadi - Peter Clayton - Robert J. Clements - Howard Comfort - Mary
Bryce Comstock - Brian F. Cook - Walter W.S. Cook - H.S.A. Copinger - Peter E. Corbett - Persy Coronis - Eliana
Covaclch - J.E. Cribb - Paul E. Culley - Raoul Curiel - Stephen Daitz - Ellen Davis - Gunter Dembski - Sylvie de
Roquefeuil - Michael DIBiase - Mervln R. Dilts - R.H.M. Dolley - Necati Dolunay - Francoise Dumas - Charles W.
Dunmore - Jean Duplessy - Ellsbeth Dusenbery - John Dusenbery - Leslie A. Elam - Ellen Epstein - Halek Ergulec -
Kenan T. Erlm - E. Erxleben - Joan M. Fagerlie - Beatrice Farwell - Otto Feld - David H. Filipek - M.l. Finley - Nezih
Flratll - Joan Fisher - Louis Foucher - Peter F. Franke - Ray Gardner - Georg Gaster - Theodor H. Gaster - Theodore
Gerasslmov - Jean-Baptiste Giard - J. Frank Gilliam - Einar Gjerstad - Theresa Goell - Tuncay Goynu - Bernard
Goldman - Norma Goldman - Cyrus H. Gordon - Isabel S. Gordon - Ralph Gordon - Claireve Grandjouan - Michael
Grant - Beatrice Green - Tamara Green - Philip Grierson - Konrad Grles - Henry Grunthal - Hans. G. Guterbock —
Tony Hackens - George M.A. Hanfmann - Jacob Hammer - Susan Handler - William Owen Hassell - Walter Havernick
- Denys E.L. Haynes - Sybil Haynes - Richard M. Haywood - Rex Heaton-Sessions — Fritz M. Heichelheim - Adelheid
Heimann - Charles A. Hersh - Ernest L. Hettich - R.A. Higgins - Abraham Holtz - Eduard Holzmair - L. Hooley - K.A.
Howes - Harald Ingholt - H.W. Janson - Josephe Jaquiot - G. Kenneth Jenkins - Nina Jidejian - Jotham Johnson - F.
Elmore Jones - Hans Jucker Leo Kadman - Baruch Kanael - Balogs Kapossy - Vassos Karageorghis - Phyllis Katz -
Ranon Katzoff - Jean Keith - John P.C. Kent - J. Alexander Kerns - Arie Kindler - Fred S. Kleiner - Ernst W.
Kllmowsky - Barnard Koch - Guenter H. Kopcke - Marie Kozakiewlcz - Dya Kozaman - Colin M. Kraay - Aleksandra
Krzyzanowska - Casper J. Kraemer, Jr. - John H. Kroll - George I— Kustas — Harald Kuthmann - H. Kwaku - Merrill
Lake - Paul Lampl - Robin Laurence — Marcel LeGlay - Karl Lehmann - Phyllis W. Lehmann - Georges Le Rider -
Annalina Levi - Mario Levi - Harry Levy - Helen Lewis - Naphtali Lewis - Samuel Lieberman - Stephen Liberman -
Katherine Linnet - Kenneth Linser - Elaine Loeffler - Pamela Long - Stanislaw Lorentz - Iris Love - Nicholas M.
Lowick - Denlt Lowry - Heath W. Lowry - David W. Macdowall - James R. McCredie - Raymond E. Main - Monique
Malnjonet - Lawrence J. Majewski - Rose Mangini - Joan S. Martin - Philip Mayerson - R. Medden - Gloria S. Merker -
Erwin Merker - Y. Meshorer - David M. Metcalf - William E. Metcalf - Henri Metzger - Maria Angeles Mezquiriz -
Melanie Mihallnk - George C. Mlles - Helen Mitchell Brown - David Gordon Mitten - Otto Morkholm - Sawyer McA.
Mosser - Wolfgang Mueller - Oscar White Muscarella - Ernest Nash - Paul M.F. Naster - Rudolf Naumann - I—
Nemeskal - Edward T. Newell - New York University Graduate School of Arts & Science Research Fund — Helene
Nicolet - Sidney P. Noe - Emanuela Nohejlova-Pratova - Geoffrey H. North - Edward L. Ochsenschlager - Mando
Oeconomidou - Nekrlman Olcay - Saadet Onat-Taner - David R. Owen - Francis Paar - Gaetano Panazza - Erwin
Panofsky - Klaus Parlasca - Andre Parrot - Efrem Pegan — Francis E. Peters - Charles Picard - Karl Pink - Hugh
Plommer - A. Poljakov - J. Graham Pollard - Enrica Pozzi - S.H. Prescott - James B. Pritchard - U. Pschlow - Zelko
Rahkic - Franklin Ray - Gisela M.A. Richter - Anne S. Robertson - Jerry M. Robinson - Elisabeth Rohde - Claire
Rosen - Edward Rosen - Lucy F. Sanlder - Nada Saporiti - Serge Sauneron - Gert Schiff - A. Arthur Schiller - Ursula
Schoenhelm - Alan Schulman - Sabine Schultz - H.D. Schultz - Willy Schwabacher - Nora E. Scott - Henri Seyrig —
Stuart Shaw - Theresa Shirer - Beulah P. Shonnard - Stephen Skouronek - Morton Smith - William H. Stahl - Jarmila
Stepkova - Donald E. Strong - Meriwether Stuart - Arthur Suhle - Mate Suic - Richard G. Summers - C.H.V.
Sutherland - Geroge F. Taylor - Abdelgelll Temlml - Raci Temizer - Margaret Thompson - Mary Lee Thompson -
Ibrahim Tozen - Joseph B. Trapp - Franz Unterklrche - Edibe Uzunoglu - Cornelius C. Vermeule III - Irene
Varoucha-Chrlstodoulopoulos - Hans von Aulock - Peter von Blanckenhagen - Paul von Khrum - Nancy M. Waggoner
- Charles Walker - J.B. Ward-Perkins - Hans Weber - Gladys D. Weinberg - Saul Weinberg - Bartlett Wells - C. Bradford
Welles - Edna Williamson - Jordanka Youroukova - Jacques Yvon - Fritz Zink - A.N. Zadocks-Jitta
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CONTENTS
Page 11 Preface
15 On the importance of coins for the history of ancient
architecture
53 Early architectural types
58 Rome : The Colosseum — The Capitolium — The Curia
75 Athens
79 Corinth
87 Delphi
91 Amaseia
95 Neocaesarea: The Sanctuary of Ma
99 Nicaea
107 Troy : The Temple of Athena
109 Cyzicus
117 Parium : The Tomb/Altar/Shrine
122 Pergamum : The Altar of Zeus
127 Ephesus : The Temple of Artemis
133 Samos : The Naiskos of the Temple of Hera
137 Sardis
143 Selge : The Prehellenic Sanctuary
147 Paphos : The Sanctuary of Aphrodite
151 Byblos : The Sanctuary of Aphrodite
155 Sidon : The Temple of Europa/Astarte
159 Baalbek — Heliopolis
167 Emisa : The Temple of Elagabal
173 Neapolis, Samaria
177 Jerusalem : The Temple of the Jews
181 Alexandria : The Pharos - The Sanctuary of Serapis -
The Nilometer
189 Various buildings arranged by type
229 Bibliography
239 Abbreviations
241 The architectural coin types of the ancient world: A list
289 Index
LIST OF COLOUR PLATES
Page 13 Fig. 277 Sidon: The Sanctuary of Astarte/Europa
Fig. 285 Capitolias: Gateway to the Sanctuary of Zeus.
Page 14 Fig. 26 Nicopolis ad Istrum : City gate.
Fig. 71 Neocaesarea: Portico.
Fig. 86 Augusta Traiana: Gateway.
Fig. 182 Nicaea: Gate.
Page 31 Fig. 23 Laodicea: Roman Forum.
Page 32 Fig. 5 Odessus: Temple of Frotuna.
Fig. 283 Tripolis: Temple of Zeus Hagios.
Fig. 326 Smyrna: Octastyle temple.
Fig. 327 Pergamum: Temple of Asclepius.
Page 49 Fig. 70 Nicopolis ad Istrum: Nymphaeum.
Fig. 169 Neocaesarea: Gate.
Fig. 244 Sardis: Altar of Zeus Lydios.
Fig. 328 Sardis: Two neocorate temples.
Page 50 Fig. 57 Caesarea Germanies: View of the Harbour.
Fig. 81 Antioch: Bridge over the Maeander river.
Fig. 82 Anazarbus: Aqueduct.
Page 67 Fig. 110 Rome: The Colosseum.
Page 68 Fig. 130 Athens: The Acropolis.
Fig. 133 Athens: The Theatre of Dionysus.
Page 101 Fig. 24 Bizya: View of the city.
Fig. 159 Amaseia: View of the city.
Page 102 Fig. 49 Prusa: Sacrifice before a round shrine.
Fig. 201 Cyzicus: The Sanctuary of Demeter.
Fig. 329 Tyre: Caryatid shrine.
Fig. 330 Zela: Portico.
Page 119 Fig. 217 Pergamum: The Altar of Zeus.
Page 120 Fig. 32 Eumeneia: The Temple of Artemis Ephesia.
Fig. 221 Ephesus: The Temple of Artemis.
Page 153 Fig. 271 Byblos: The Sanctuary of Aphrodite.
Page 154 Fig. 252 Selge: The Sanctuary of Zeus and Heracles.
Fig. 266 Cryprus: The Sanctuary of Aphrodite Paphia.
Page 171 Fig. 282 Baalbek: The Sanctuary of Mercury.
Fig. 284 Baalbek: Portico to the Sanctuary of Jupiter.
Fig. 290 Baalbek: The Temple of Jupiter.
Page 172 Fig. 56 Pella: View of the city.
Fig. 302 Neapolis: Mount Gerizim.
MAPS
Page 9 Cities of the Eastern Roman Empire
Pages 58—9 The City of Rome

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