Coins and their Cities. Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palastine.

Language: English

Published by Vecchi, 1977

0814315860 / 9780814315866

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Friary Press, Dorchester / London, 1977. 298p. Richly ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs). Hard bound with dust wrps. 'At the end of this book is a full list cataloguing representations of buildings on coins of the ancient world, omitting only the city of Rome 'because listst of building types can be easily found in such works as Roman Imperial Coinage and Coins of the Roman Empire'. The text is essentially a discussion of the more important examples. it is lavishly illustrated, with good colour plates and adequate half-tones. (.) the coins illustrate a wide range of buildings, though naturally the principal public buildings, especially temples, predominate. For many buildings they afford the only evidence that has survived. The authors emphasize this, and explain carefully the conventions inevitably used by the engravers in producing their representations of buildings in such small dimensions. They insist on the importance of this evidence for the architectural historian, and, indeed, the architectural historian will welcome the scholarly presentation of the material. Yet he most remain doubtful of the real value of the evidence. (.) Where nothing else is available, then the evidence of these coins has to be used. For other buildings there is a risk of confusion.' (R.A. TOMLINSON in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 1980, pp.275-76).

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Title
Coins and their Cities. Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palastine.
Author
JESSOP PRICE, M., and B.L. TRELL,
Publisher
Vecchi
Publication year
1977
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
ISBN 10
0814315860
ISBN 13
9780814315866

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Scrinium Classical Antiquity, member of the Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (NVvA - ILAB), stands for a specialized stock of new, secondhand and antiquarian books about Classical Antiquity. The main theme of our books is Classical Antiquity: texts and commentaries, translations, archeology, philosophy, travel, history, mythology, books for young people, philology, law, reception of classical motives in Middle Ages, Renaissance and our own time and neo-Hellenika (conptemporary Greece), and many more subjects. A more modest quantity of our books concerns countries, civilisations and religious movements on the edges of the classical world: e.g. Egypt, Middle East and Early Christianity.

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