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    Living by the Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum
    Living by the Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum
    Living by the Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum
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    Living by the Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum

    By Cristian Gazdac and Franz Humer

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    After a forty-year gap following the excavations of the 1950s (and even earlier), large archaeological campaigns have been carried out since the 1990s in a quarter (also known as "Spaziergarten", "insula VI"and "Open-Air Museum") of the former "civilian" Roman town of Carnuntum. These new excavations have produced a large quantity of coins. Some of these findings have been published in the monumental volume Numismata Carnuntina - FMRÖ III.2 together with the rest of the coins found at Carnuntum in older collections. The new excavations were carried out according to new methodologies, as nowadays it is a desideratum to create numismatic corpora that should gather as much information as possible about each coin, not only from a numismatic point of view but also from an archaeological one. The aim is to provide more details about both general and specific patterns of the Roman economy, society and history of a residential quarter in a Roman town. Thus, the style of publication of coins - with a large scale of archaeological units (e.g. Roman streets, dwellings public edifices) and their stratigraphy - was chosen in this book in order to provide as much information as possible about each coin; in doing so we try to provide scholars with material and evidence that may help them to obtain a realistic picture of monetary circulation. Similarly, the coin as seen through an archaeological context may serve for a better understanding of the dating of archaeological phases, especially to illustrate when the coin may be useful within an archaeological context, as well as to highlight the pitfalls that one may come across if this artefact is misunderstood within the archaeological picture. We hope that this book will be a useful tool for numismatists, archaeologists, historians and any reader interested in understanding Roman life through coinage.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
    Release dateMar 22, 2013
    ISBN9783990120941
    Living by the Coins: Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum

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      Living by the Coins - Cristian Gazdac

      CRISTIAN GĂZDAC               FRANZ HUMER

      LIVING BY THE COINS

      ROMAN LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF COIN

      FINDS AND ARCHAEOLOGY

      WITHIN A RESIDENTIAL QUARTER

      OF CARNUNTUM

      ARCHÄOLOGISCHER PARK CARNUNTUM. NEUE FORSCHUNGEN 8

      Cristian Găzdac and Franz Humer:

      Living By The Coins.

      Roman Life in the Light of Coin Finds and Archaeology within a Residential Quarter of Carnuntum.

      Wien: HOLLITZER Wissenschaftsverlag, 2013

      Copy-editing: Paul Delavos, Alison Dunlop (Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag, Wien)

      Layout: Barbara Ebeling

      Cover photo: www.kovacs-images.com

      © HOLLITZER Wissenschaftsverlag, Wien 2013

      HOLLITZER Wissenschaftsverlag

      Trautsongasse 6, A-1080 Wien

      A division of

      HOLLITZER Baustoffwerke Graz GmbH

      Stadiongasse 6-8, A-1010 Wien

      www.hollitzer.at

      All rights reserved.

      Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form by any means, digital, electronic or mechanical, or by photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the Internet or a Web site without prior written permission of the publisher.

      ISBN 978-3-99012-092-7 hbk

      ISBN 978-3-99012-093-4 pdf

      ISBN 978-3-99012-094-1 e-pub

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      Carnuntum – the Reborn City of Emperors

      Numismatic Comments

      Abbreviations and Bibliography

      Technical Abbreviations

      Photo credits

      Tables

      Graphs

      Maps

      Catalogues

      North Street

      South Street

      East Street

      West Street

      Portico

      Baths

      "Valetudinarium?"

      Building east of the "valetudinarium?"

      Villa urbana

      House I

      House II

      House III

      House IV

      House V

      Former information centre – today the restaurant Forum Culinarium

      Stray finds

      Plates

      INTRODUCTION

      After a forty-year gap following the excavations of the 1950s (and even earlier), large archaeological campaigns have been carried out since the 1990s in a quarter (also known as Spaziergarten, insula VI and Open-Air Museum) of the former civilian Roman town of Carnuntum. These new excavations have produced a large quantity of coins.

      Some of these findings have been published in the monumental volume Numismata Carnuntina – FMRÖ III.2 together with the rest of the coins found at Carnuntum in older collections.

      The new excavations were carried out according to new methodologies, as nowadays it is a desideratum to create numismatic corpora that should gather as much information as possible about each coin, not only from a numismatic point of view but also from an archaeological one. The aim is to provide more details about both general and specific patterns of the Roman economy, society and history of a residential quarter in a Roman town.

      Thus, the style of publication of coins – with a large scale of archaeological units (e.g. Roman streets, dwellings public edifices) and their stratigraphy – was chosen in this book in order to provide as much information as possible about each coin; in doing so we try to provide scholars with material and evidence that may help them to obtain a realistic picture of monetary circulation. Similarly, the coin as seen through an archaeological context may serve for a better understanding of the dating of archaeological phases, especially to illustrate when the coin may be useful within an archaeological context, as well as to highlight the pitfalls that one may come across if this artefact is misunderstood within the archaeological picture.

      We hope that this book will be a useful tool for numismatists, archaeologists, historians and any reader interested in understanding Roman life through coinage.

      It would not have been possible to publish such a large amount of numismatic evidence and work without the tremendous, accurate and difficult work carried out over last decades by our colleagues and friends in the field of archaeology to whom we express our gratitude: Christoph Baier, Claudia Behling, Jasmine Cencic, Dagmar Fuchs, Ágnes Alföldy-Găzdac, Nicole Fuchshuber, Armgart Geiger, Andreas Konecny, Dominik Maschek, Matthias Pacher, Beatrix Petznek, Silvia Radbauer, Alexandra Rauchenwald, Barbara Stark, Barbara Weißmann and Ulrike Zeger.

      The restoration work was carried out by János Papp (National Museum of Budapest, Hungary) and Kathrin Schmied (University of Vienna, Austria) to whom we also express our gratitude here.

      We also want to thank to over seventy Romanian students from the University of ClujNapoca, Romania and eighty seasonal workers, whose efficient

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