Material culture and cultural identity : a study of Greek and Roman coins from Dora / Rosa Maria Motta.

Includes bibliographical references.

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.

Specialized.

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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.

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