The 7th Joint Meeting of Nomisma.org and ECFN 2018
2025
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The 7th Joint Meeting of Nomisma.org and ECFN 2018
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May 3th, Thursday
14:30
Presentation of ARCH Project
Frédérique Duyrat | Bibliothèque nationale de France
Andrew Meadows | University of Oxford
Pere Pau Ripollès | Universitat de València
ARCH: Ancient Coinage as Related Cultural Heritage will establish, for the first time, an overarching
platform for the study, curation, archiving and preservation of the monetary heritage of the
ancient world. The project will develop one geographical focus – Pre-Roman Spain and southern
Gaul – in the form of a specific online reference tool (Monedaiberica) that will draw upon public
collections and objects in commerce, as well as a program of research designed to exploit the
opportunities offered by a Linked Open Data infrastructure. This will examine questions of
monetary and cultural connectivity and interaction across the borders of Spain and France in
antiquity, in collaboration with leading scholars in the monetary and cultural history of this
geographical area, working as Associate Partners based in Oxford, Paris, Bordeaux, Orléans, and
Valencia.
15:00
Data Quality Fingerprints in Nomisma.org Linked Open Data
Karsten Tolle | Goethe-University
Data Quality is important for the acceptance of reusing Linked Open Data. In my talk, I will show
our approaches within the DFG funded project Corpus Nummorum Thracorum (CNT). As main
contribution to the Nomisa.org community, we generated a rule system based on the
Nomisma.org ontology that can be applied to any Nomisma.org dataset without changes. The
system therefore can serve as a data quality fingerprint for datasets.
In some cases, it is possible to use additional sources of information, for example the images or
descriptions in natural language which are attached to the data. Using Natural Language
Processing tools and algorithms for images, we are exploring what other solutions for data quality
improvements exist.
15:10
Corpus Nummorum Thracorum. Problems of typology
Ulrike Peter | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
In the paper I will discuss our definition of a coin type and describe the challenges of doing so: What
variations in motif or legend are possible within a defined type? What distinguishes a type from a
subtype or variant? Are there differences in defining Greek coin types of the Archaic-classical, Hellenistic
or Roman period?"
15:30
Data management for the MIB project with NUMISDATA
Manuel Gozalbes | Museu de Prehistòria de València
The task of collecting data on ancient coins of the Iberian Peninsula began 40 years ago. In the last
15 years, it has been necessary to design databases to gather information and keep it organized.
Within the framework of the ARCH project, NUMISDATA, a numismatic management tool for
researchers, is ready to gather all the previous information of the MIB project into a single
management system. The current project needs to import and manage over 100.000 coins with
images and supplementary information on hoards, finds, auctions, collections and bibliography.
NUMISDATA is the tool designed for that challenge.
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A short update on OSCAR (Online Swiss Coin Archive)
Christian Weiss | Swiss National Museum
Taking OCRE, CRRO and Pella as a role model, OSCAR aims to become a online-typology for Swiss
medieval and modern coinage. Starting in 2018 and planned to go live within three years, the first
few months were mainly devoted to gather the data for the type descriptions of the 17th to the
21st centuries and clarifying inconsistencies. This is a short update on the project and its possible
impacts on nomisma-IDs for medieval and modern numismatics in general.
May 4th, Friday
09:00
The PAS in 2018: What next?
Andrew Brown | The British Museum
As the PAS enters its third decade, some of the highlights of the last year demonstrate the
continued importance of recording archaeological material from around the UK and reveal new
information about coin loss in Britain. With more than 250,000 Roman coins now recorded
through the scheme, we have to consider what we do with this vast dataset and what new
information it can reveal about the spread of coinage over long periods of time. Focussing
particularly on discrete groups of coins, notably early Roman bronze issues of specific ‘British
Association’, I will look at how we can potentially use the PAS to reveal the spread, distribution
patterns, or indeed concentrations, of these specific coin types and what insight this might offer
with regard to coin use in Roman Britain.
09:20
Studying and preserving numismatic heritage: the CyReNe-Project
Alessandro Cattaneo | Università degli Studi di Padova
Cyrenaica and its main centre, Cyrene, have had a great importance in the ancient world during
both Greek-Hellenistic and Roman periods. This importance is clearly visible also through its
numismatic production, which is of considerable variety and interest, with few equals in the
ancient Mediterranean. In spite of this, the numismatic attention given to the region has
sometimes been inadequate and its coinage has remained marginalised in the context of the many
mints active during the antiquity.
In addition to this, the historical-political events that have taken place in Libya since 2011 and the
resulting continuous state of clashes and civil wars, have also led to the destruction and looting of
part of the cultural heritage of the region. The numismatic material, which is easy to export
illegally and then resold, has certainly been one of the hardest hit. The growing numbers of
specimens sold by auction houses and other sellers in the last seven years are obviously a direct
consequence of this.
The “CyReNe-Project "(Cyrenaican Research Numismatic e-Project), using the digital resources that
are becoming more and more popular in the humanities and through a global digital archiving of
these specimens, has the aim to create a tool, with a dual purpose of study - and consequent
enhancement - and of safeguarding, at least at the level of virtual data, the Cyrenaican numismatic
heritage. Some interesting results have already been achieved.
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Digital visibility of numismatic contributions to Research projects: DeAtlanTir
and CVB
Alicia Arévalo | Universidad de Cádiz
Elena Moreno | Universidad de Cádiz
This speech aims to propose the numismatic methodological approaching undertaken for two
research projects, currently in progress and focused in South Hispania.
On the one hand, for the project of the National R+D+I (HAR2014-58326-P) From the Atlantic
Ocean to the Tirreno Sea. Atlantic Baetican and Lusitanian ports and its commercial relations to
Ostia Antica, we have elaborated a Data Base of the coin findings from the ports of Ossonoba,
Balsa and Myrtilis. In a second step, we have accomplished the geo-referencing of these findings in
a GIS that will be an optimum complement to the other archaeological studies carried out in this
same project.
On the other hand, we present the Andalusian Research Plan (Ref. HUM2065) Roman cities of the
Baetica. CORPVS VRBIVM BAETICARVM (I) (CUB). In this case, we have assumed the elaboration of
two kinds of numismatics schedae, the first for the minting cities and the other about monetary
circulation in the urban ambits. This project also includes a free access online application where it
can be checked the compendius of the different schedae elaborated for the project, among of
them, there will be the numismatic ones.
10:00
New developements in the project KENOM
Mario Schlapke | Thüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
A short persentation of new developements in the KENOM-project
10:10
NUMISDATA: management, research and publishing system for numismatic
heritage
Juan Francisco Onielfa Veneros | Render
Alejandro Peña Carbonell | Render
Since 1998 we are developing Dedalo, an open source project for the management, research and
publishing of Cultural Heritage. In the field of numismatics, we are building a specific model and
configuration of Dédalo called Numisdata. This build is designed for the specific management of
numismatics files and inherits Dédalo basis concepts of linked records, implementation of thesauri,
multi-language, permanent backup at field level, customizable access for records and fields and
powerful resources management, among other features.
Numisdata is based on an ontology created for developing «Moneda Ibérica» and «Sardinia»
projects and is fully compatible with Nomisma. The ontology manages the data and the
programming objects, it interprets the data and build the code for show, search, edit, export and
transform the whole archive information. Our core technology builds a new paradigm of Linked
Data for documents working in a NoSQL model. The information is stored in JSON format, and the
model has three abstraction layers: for data, ontology and programming. In the same way as
Dédalo, Numisdata is a long-term development project regularly updated with new features and
capabilities. Our objective is to achieve a flexible tool for managing, researching and publishing
numismatic catalogues of different kinds.
10:30
The NUMiD project
Karsten Dahmen | Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The Münzkabinett at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is one of the most important numismatic
collections in the world. 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of its ongoing project to digitalise its
collections and implement new methods of working on the semantic web. 2017 also sees the birth
of NUMiD, the Network of University Coin Collections in Germany (Netzwerk universitärer
Münzsammlungen in Deutschland).
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The oldest coin hoard from Denmark - a presentation
Helle Horsnæs | Nationalmuseet
During detector surveys amateur archaeologists have recovered what is today the earliest denarius
hoard from Denmark.
11:30
Hoards as a primary historical source - Based on the example of the Emona and
Čentur hoards
Leilani Štajer | University of Ljubljana
The aim in this presentation is to highlight the significance of hoard findings as a primary historical
source. I am going to discuss the level of reliability of such analysis and the interpretation of
antique hoards, as well as present the possible traps that lead to an insufficiently critical
interpretation. This will be presented on two examples - the most important Roman hoards found
in Slovenia - the Emona and the Čentur hoards.
11:40
The Iberian mint of ltirta. Hoards and coin findings between III-I Centuries BC.
Jose Manuel Torregrosa Yago | Universitat de València
ILTIRTA (the current city of Lleida, Cataluña) produced coins along three centuries. Iberian
imitations of Emporion silver drachmae and their fractions which copied the small silver coinage
issued by the city of Massalia, conformed part of this money that was used to cover the expenses
of the War for the romans. Moreover, minted silver denarius and quinarius and an important
volume of bronze coinage. We have studied nineteen hoards: eight with drachmae, eight that
contains denarius and only three with bronze coins. Almost, the total amount of casual coin
findings in the Iberian Peninsula reaches more than three hundred coins.
11:50
Project Finds of Roman Coins in Poland and connected with Pl. Małopolska
Team. Whatever happened to gold coins and other questions
Jarosław Bodzek | Jagiellonian University
The project “Finds of Roman Coins in Poland – Lesser Poland” is part of the larger project “Finds of
Roman Coins in Poland and connected historically with PL” (FRC PL), directed by Professor
Aleksander Bursche from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and funded
by a grant from “The National Programme for the Development of Humanities” of the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Its timescale runs from 2013 to 2017. The project’s aim
is to create an online database that gathers into one place all material associated with
Roman coin finds from both Poland and some regions of neighbouring countries that once
formed part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. The team working on finds in Lesser Poland
includes Jarosław Bodzek, Kamil Kopij, Emilia Smagur, Jerzy Kliś and postgraduate students
studying at the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University – Szymon
Jellonek, Barbara. Zając and Paulina Koczwara. The paper goal is to present some important
problems concerning the finds of Roman coins in Małopolska.
12:10
Some considerations about grave coin finds in the territory of Slovenia
Alenka Miškec | National museum of Slovenia
Our analysis included around 1200 coin finds from Roman graves in the territory of present-day
Slovenia. We analyzed the frequency of coins by emperors, material, and nominal values, as well
as their preservation. And we also verified the theory stating that coins placed in graves in the 1st
and 2nd centuries were also selected because of the personifications depicted on them, with
Fortuna, Salus, Felicitas, and Libertas supposed to be the most frequent ones.
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The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project (CHRE): 11,313 hoards and
counting! Recent progress and linked data
Marguerite Spoerri Butcher | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Cristian Gazdac | Romanian Academy, Institute of archaeology and Art History Cluj-Napoca
The aim of the current phase of The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project, directed by C.
Howgego and A. Wilson, is to collect summary hoard data from all Roman provinces, as well as to
input a selection of hoards at the level of the individual coin. More than 11,313 hoards and single
gold finds have now an entry on our web app (http://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk) and our network of
international collaborations extends to 22 countries.
Our presentation will encompass two aspects of recent work.
The first one will focus on the use of linked data within our project, exemplified through the case
of Switzerland, for which we now have an increased number of hoards described at coin level,
thanks to a collaboration with the Swiss Inventory of coin finds (SICF). Beyond linked data at coin
level, our bibliographical records are now being linked to the online library of the German
Archaeological Institute iDAI.bibliography / ZENON (https://zenon.dainst.org). Collaboration
currently extends to implementing online retro-links from Zenon to CHRE.
The second one will present recent progress made by team members of the project, but also
external collaborators or project partners. Focus has been put to extend our geographical coverage
to a larger number of countries including the Balkans, but also Turkey, France, the Netherlands or
Italy to name only a few. Furthermore, a lot of work has been accomplished in validating
previously entered hoards and cleaning data.
12:40
Tomares Hoard, Planning and Program for the Research
Ana D. Navarro | Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla
The hoard of Tomares is not completely exceptional, as similarly rich hoards from this period have
been found elsewhere in the Empire. The precise characterisation of the hoard of Tomares will
have to wait until a larger number of coins have been examined. The find comprised a total of
19 amphorae, 10 of which were broken as a consequence of the machine work. The other 9 were
complete and remained sealed. These amphorae belong to the well-known Dressel 23 type, which
was generally used for the transportation and storage of olive oil. The first problem is to determine
the exact number of coins in the hoard, given that the average weight of the amphorae is 35 kg.
These hoards include pieces dating to the Tetrarchy and from later, into the 4th century and the
reign of Constantine. It is the largest hoard ever to have been found in the Diocesis Baetica and the
whole of Hispania. This attests to the economic and strategic importance that Southern Spain and
the Guadalquivir Valley still had in the Late Empire.
12:50
Coin finds in "La Casa dels peixos" a domus in Saguntum
Tomás Hurtado Mullor | Universitat de València
We expose the coins appeared in a domus in Saguntum with a life dated between the end of the
1st century AD until the beginning of the fourth century, now musealized. The numismatic material
includes one Republican coin and Roman Empire coins, including one denarius of Vespasianus.
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EMC: New developments
Martin Allen | Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
At the meeting of ECFN/Nomisma.org in May 2017 I gave a presentation on ‘Finding the Past:
Twenty Years of EMC’. There have been significant new developments since that time. A
conference on EMC at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in October 2017 promoted new uses of
EMC data. EMC is now closely involved with a Leverhulme Trust funded project, Lordship and
Landscape in East Anglia AD 400−800, which began in November 2017 and is analysing finds from
Rendlesham and other sites in East Anglia. The EMC/SCBI website is being redesigned and is
expected to be relaunched before the meeting in May 2018.
14:30
Introduction to Nomisma.org
Questions and answers on Nomisma.org
Andrew Meadows | University of Oxford
David Wigg-Wolf | Römisch-Germanische Kommission
Nomisma.org is a collaborative project to provide stable digital representations of numismatic
concepts according to the principles of Linked Open Data. These take the form of http URIs that
also provide access to reusable information about those concepts, along with links to other
resources. The canonical format of nomisma.org is RDF/XML, with serializations available in JSONLD (including geoJSON-LD for complex geographic features), Turtle, KML (when applicable), and
HTML5+RDFa 1.1. While the URIs provided by nomisma.org are stable, the project is in progress
and subject to constant expansion and ongoing correction. This is particularly the case for the
information provided about each nomisma.org identifier. The information provided by
nomisma.org has been provided by a wide community of scholars and insitutions.
May 5th, Saturday
09:00
Photographing Coins
Ulrich Werz | Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
An necessary part of the documentation of coins is, besides identification and inclusion in a
databank, the creation of a photographic record. In order to photograph large numbers of coins
from finds and collections, a plug-in and batchfile have been created, which allow the backgrounds
to be removed from coin images, the images to be fixed in a ratio of 1:1 and these to be given a
title. The essential data relating to the individual coins, including their findspot and archaeological
context, is then appended to the photographs as metadata.
09:10
IIIF, Web Annotation, and Numismatics
Ethan Gruber | American Numismatic Society
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a community-driven open specification
for image APIs and metadata. Initially developed by university libraries for publication of high
resolution images of Special Collections materials, it has been adopted by numerous Nomisma.org
partners, including the American Numismatic Society, the KENOM project, Bibliothèque nationale
de France, Harvard Art Museums, and others. The implementation of IIIF within the Nomisma data
model enables zooming of high resolution images in Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) and
similar type corpus projects. It also allows "packaging" of all relevant images pertaining to a single
coin type, which will also facilitate the annotation of monograms, symbols, and iconographic
motifs (by linking to relevant URIs), paving the way to new modes of inquiry and coin description.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the specification, its current use cases in OCRE,
and the potentials for standardized annotation.
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Converting Germany’s Roman Coin Finds to LOD - an exemplary workflow for
the FMRD project
Timo Kissinger | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur – Mainz
The project „Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland“ (FMRD) was created in 1953 to
record all Roman coins found in Germany. From 1986 onwards FMRD was funded by the Academy
of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. The project was completed in 2009. In its 56 years of existence
FMRD published over 40 volumes, the first one published in 1960. At the moment these volumes
are only available as printed books. In order to make the research results of FMRD accessible to a
broader audience and to open up this rich numismatic resource for further use by the scientific
community, an exemplary workflow has been developed that converts the coin finds of the printed
volumes to Linked Open Data (LOD). The coin finds from the excavation of the cathedral at Trier
were selected as a first use case.
The first step of the workflow extracts the coin data from PDF documents as XML. During
development this process proved to be challenging due to the large number of inconsistencies in
the original data. After that, the XML is transformed to a standard compliant TEI/XML document.
In a next step, the number of data columns is normalized and the coin data is then transferred into
a LOD model using the nomisma.org ontology. The modeled data is finally converted from XML
into RDF with the help of the XTriples webservice. The resulting semantically enriched data set can
be queried with SPARQL and data visualizations can be created easily using JavaScript libraries like
sgvizler.
09:30
Rethinking French numismatics : terminology, typology, nomisma
Florence Codine | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The EPHE is currently in the fist stages of creating a database for French numismatics. In the first
year of this project, the members of Marc Bompaire's seminar on medieval and modern
numismatics and monetary history have been discussing the terminology and the structural
requirements of such a database. Beyond the simple addition of new nomisma IDs, this has led to
several ideas regarding possible evolutions of the nomisma ontology.
09:40
Representation of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and their targeted
audience
Martin Baer | Universität Wien, Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
Past studies on the representation of the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus were
mainly concentrated on the analysis of coin types. Thus the importance of a topic were only built
on the amount of coin types in RIC, BMC or MIR, which is problematic because the definition of a
coin type differs from each catalogue. Additionally, we can only speculate for whom the coin types
were made for.
A much better way of understanding the importance of coin types is using coin hoards, which are
abundant since the end of the 2nd century AD. Quantifying and tracking the coins from hoards
gives us an impression whether the coin types were made for a broader audience or for a specific
one. In my presentation I will therefore quantify the data from coin hoards, compare the
representation of the co-emperors, and take a look at where the coins went to. For this study my
analysis will be based on more than 200 hoards containing aurei and denarii from all over Western
Europe.
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Julio-Claudian Coin Hoards from Hispaniae. Problems, Method of Work and
Digital Dissemination
David Martínez Chico | Universitat de València
This conference talk presents part of our thesis developed on the coin hoards found in Hispania
and dated between Augustus and fifth century A.D. Obviously in this work, countries like Spain and
Portugal are included. The first two centuries are finished and at present we are collecting the
hoards of next century, where there are other mints and not only Rome. In accordance with this,
we discuss work guidelines, problems, method of work and, finally, digital dissemination in Coin
Hoards of the Roman Empire Project’s app.
After making the summaries of each coin hoards, according to their coins, mints, metal and
monetary type, we can see an interesting evolution of coin supply, injected from Rome and
accompanied with the Iberian and Hispanic provincial coinages during the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
For other chronologies, we can affirm that the Hispanic provincial coinage circulated until the first
half of the 3rd century A.D. A great and scarce example for this last one is ‘Los Torrejones’ hoard,
from Yecla (Murcia), thanks to coin minted in Cartago Nova by Caligula.
10:10
The Sardinia website. Coin finds in Terralba area
Pere Pau Ripollès | Universitat de València
In the previous ECFN meeting we presented the database of the findings in Terralba area, Sardinia.
It was built with the data management system NumisData. Now we present the visualisation of the
results via a website. The structure covers all fields related to coins and findspots through maps
and diagrams.
The present study assembles diverse pieces found in a total of 143 archaeological sites, including
the recent findings of Truncu 'e Molas excavation (Terralba, Oristano), discovered during the
campaigns of 2007, and those published by R. Zucca (1987: 142-143). The coins studied amount to
a total of 396 specimens, excluding the pieces of dubious classification and poor preservation, the
final catalogue consists of 364 coins. The findspots have been identified as Punic farms, necropolis
and Roman villae. This website demonstrates that the coin databases using NumisData
management system can be easily transformed in an efficacious research tool (website) for
scholars, as well as enthusiasts.
10:20
I.Num.Sic. A new project on coin epigraphy
Mariangela Puglisi | Università degli Studi di Messina
Jonathan Prag | Merton College, University of Oxford
I.Sicily is an online TEI-XML (EpiDoc) corpus of the inscriptions of ancient Sicily
(http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk and https://isicily.wordpress.com). The corpus has been live and the
focus of ongoing editing and development since January 2017. Currently the corpus contains
inscriptions on stone in all languages from the Archaic to the Late Antique periods, but is extending
coverage to include inscriptions on other media. The project places a strong emphasis on autopsy
and direct collaboration with Sicilian museums and archaeological authorities. Within this
framework, we aim to develop a parallel and integrated corpus of the legends on ancient Sicilian
coins (I.Num.Sic. = Inscriptiones Nummorum Siciliae), exploiting the text-focused potential of
EpiDoc and seeking to integrate coin legends within a holistic study of ancient Sicilian textual
culture. The time appears to be ripe for such a project, both from a technical perspective - the
existence of the Nomisma and EpiDoc communities, and the active projects to develop SigiDoc and
Linked Open Data standards for EpiDoc – and from a numismatic perspective – the imminent
completion of Historia Numorum3, Sicily and Adjacent Islands. This presentation will sketch the
aims and framework of the project and explore some of the conceptual challenges facing a project
focused on cataloguing legends.
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Unification of databases: difficulties and solutions/suggestions. A practical
case, Museo Casa de la Moneda
José María Pérez García | Museo Casa de la Moneda
In the museum Casa de la Moneda of Madrid our stock exceeds two hundred thousand
exhibits with the permanent exposition and the archives. The variety of it is quite diverse, as we
have coins, medals, postal stamps, bank notes, drawings, engravings, machines, etc. at our
disposal. In order to unify the pre-existing documentation of all the exhibits an exclusive operating
system has been developed but the results were not the expected ones because it did not make
the collection of data easier in a clear and concise way. In addition, we deal with the difficulty of
constantly receiving new samples from the production of the FNMT. We are currently working on
creating a unified and efficient system which allows for including new samples and which is more
accessible and thus able to show the precise information of each collection.
11:30
Iberian numismatics in context
Paula Granados | The Open University
From the 19th century onwards, coins started to gain recognition as archaeological objects. Since
then, numismatics has constituted itself as a main discipline within the field of History and the
study of the different types of currency has become a foremost source of information. Traditional
approaches in Spanish numismatics focused mainly on the cataloguing of the rich collections,
however lacking any connection between the coin specimen and its archaeological context.
Current approaches are looking for new ways to link the specimen not just with similar types but
also with its cultural context as well as other archaeological remains that could bring some new
information about both the minter and the coin itself.
In this scenario, Digital Humanities are taking the lead on proposing new ways to provide the
numismatic record with a relevant context. During the last decade, traditional data management
systems (i.e. graph or relational databases) proved their efficiency in gathering and making
accessible large amounts of data. The Hesperia project for example provides access to a significant
corpus of paleo Hispanic inscriptions and coin legends online (Granados 2017). Nevertheless,
traditional databases present limitations in the access, processing, querying and general
interoperability of the information.
Linked Open Data technologies have proved to be a successful alternative to overcome these
restrictions. My research explores the current landscape and technological offer of archaeological
data coming from the Iberian Peninsula including coins, sculptures and epigraphy and looks into
venues for improving upon it regarding the question of cultural contact in Early Roman Baetica.
Initial research has proved that Spanish archaeological data is still hardly accessible online,
institutional databases constitute closed-world data silos that allow very little access to the
information and impede the data querying and processing. This paper will expand on the current
state of the art and will present some possible measures to overcome such problems.
11:50
VINDONISSA re-visited
Rahel C. Ackermann | Swiss Inventory of Coin Finds
Vindonissa is the only legion's camp in today's Switzerland. The military presence has a huge
impact on the coin circulation in our country. But the Vindonissa coins finds are but partially
published. In a joint project of the SICF and the local archaeological service we (re-)study all
findings 1950-2016 an bring the core data together in our database.
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Tokens and Token Moulds in Roman Ostia
Clare Rowan | The University of Warwick
While the lead tokens and token moulds of the city of Rome have seen some focus in previous
scholarship, there has been significantly less attention paid to the lead tokens and marble moulds
in the port of Ostia. This paper presents the ongoing efforts to catalogue the tokens and moulds
found in the city as part of the ERC Project “Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean”.
Tokens and moulds have been recorded online according to Nomisma ontology and the principles
of Linked Open Data, and are connected to detailed descriptions of find spots. This overview of
finds, the first created for Ostia, reveals that Rome and its port shared a ‘token making tradition’
and provides some suggestion as to the possible uses of these otherwise elusive objects.
12:20
Recent developments and future challenges in studying ancient and Byzantine
weights (Pondera Online)
Lysiane Delanaye | Université catholique de Louvain
Charles Doyen | FNRS / UCLouvain
This presentation aims to describe the most recent developments in the Pondera Online Project.
12:30
Barbarian coinage: the online corpus of the Visigoths
Ruth Pliego | Institute for Advanced Study - Paris
In recent years, there has been a significant interest on the cultural heritage and European identity
and one of the challenges of the Strategic Research Agenda is digitizing Europe’s cultural heritage
aiming to make available online the collections conserved in museums and other institutions. In
this context some of those, principally in the framework of Numisma.org, have developed
interesting thematic projects with the coinage of the Roman world being the main subject.
Although in recent times new projects contemplate the coins of other historical periods (e.g. Greek
and Iberian coinage), the only thematic resource related with the Migration Period is The Early
Medieval Corpus (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), which is the first attempt to collect all the
coins found in the British Islands (410-1180). This paper focuses on the importance of establishing
an online corpus of the coinage of the Early Middle Age that includes globally the coinage of the
emerging Germanic kingdoms. Despite the difficulty that such work entails, thanks to a fellowship
at the Institut d’Études Avancées of Paris it has been possible to start this project, using for the
pilot phase a modest coinage and involved in a controversial in the Spanish historiography: the socalled Visigoth copper. Taking into account that an increasing number of museums and cultural
institutions have incipiently put online their numismatics funds, in the mid-term, this online corpus
would include the gold Visigothic coinage, as well as series minted by other Migration Period
peoples.
12:50
Use of ancient coins in East-Central Europe in the medieval and modern periods
- a new numismatic project
Arkadiusz Dymowski | University of Warsaw
The use of ancient coins, first of all the Roman ones, in East-Central Europe in the early Middle
Ages and on until the modern period, as a phenomenon spanning several consecutive historical
periods, demands an interdisciplinary approach. A study into the research problems will need to
be conducted outside of the schemata of research limited to just one chronological period or to
just one category of sources. The new project conducted at the University of Warsaw focuses
primarily on numismatic research, it will also encompass research drawing from fields such as
history, archaeology and ethnology, particularly in the context of the Middle Ages and the modern
period. Two aspects of the research problem will need to be considered. First of all, one must
examine the sources of ancient coins used in East-Central Europe throughout the Middle Ages and
the modern period. Secondly, the project focuses on establishing the functions of ancient coinage
during the times between 7th and the turn of 18th century.
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The New Material Evidence of the Umayyad Conquest of Hispania, 711-756. The
Leads Seals
Tawfiq Ibrahim | Real Academia de la Historia
The recent discovery, in the last four decades, of more than a 150 lead seals in the Iberian
Peninsula and the Gallic Narbonne all clearly covering the period of the Umayyad conquest and
their governors has been a major contribution to a difficult, controversial and very pationatedly
debated historical period. A period which was only covered very late in chronically foundational
recalling's, in Latin and Arabic, done mostly a couple centuries later and more. To these last there
is one very short but important exception, the only one composed in the Peninsula contemporary
to the actual event, the anonymous Cronica de 754. It is this last, a very deeply pained but very
objective lament as viewed from the perspective of the subjected and conquered which seems to
fully concord to the forceful events, the military and economic, that these seals seem to cover.
Previous to the discovery of these lead seals the only undisputable material evidence of this
pivotal historical period had been the coinage. Certainly a important material evidence well
studied since the 19th century covering its early sequential time development: Latin, bilingual and
Arabic. An important evidence which aside, from its great quality, metal content and esthetic
epigraphy, only gives us very limited punctual information, mostly a generic indications of a
general geographic area (Hispania, Hesperidia and the enigmatic al-Andalus), the yearly Hidjra
dating and a single always repeated ideological/religious message.
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May 3th, Thursday
14:30
Presentation of ARCH Project
Frédérique Duyrat | Bibliothèque nationale de France
Andrew Meadows | University of Oxford
Pere Pau Ripollès | Universitat de València
ARCH: Ancient Coinage as Related Cultural Heritage will establish, for the first time, an overarching
platform for the study, curation, archiving and preservation of the monetary heritage of the
ancient world. The project will develop one geographical focus – Pre-Roman Spain and southern
Gaul – in the form of a specific online reference tool (Monedaiberica) that will draw upon public
collections and objects in commerce, as well as a program of research designed to exploit the
opportunities offered by a Linked Open Data infrastructure. This will examine questions of
monetary and cultural connectivity and interaction across the borders of Spain and France in
antiquity, in collaboration with leading scholars in the monetary and cultural history of this
geographical area, working as Associate Partners based in Oxford, Paris, Bordeaux, Orléans, and
Valencia.
15:00
Data Quality Fingerprints in Nomisma.org Linked Open Data
Karsten Tolle | Goethe-University
Data Quality is important for the acceptance of reusing Linked Open Data. In my talk, I will show
our approaches within the DFG funded project Corpus Nummorum Thracorum (CNT). As main
contribution to the Nomisa.org community, we generated a rule system based on the
Nomisma.org ontology that can be applied to any Nomisma.org dataset without changes. The
system therefore can serve as a data quality fingerprint for datasets.
In some cases, it is possible to use additional sources of information, for example the images or
descriptions in natural language which are attached to the data. Using Natural Language
Processing tools and algorithms for images, we are exploring what other solutions for data quality
improvements exist.
15:10
Corpus Nummorum Thracorum. Problems of typology
Ulrike Peter | Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
In the paper I will discuss our definition of a coin type and describe the challenges of doing so: What
variations in motif or legend are possible within a defined type? What distinguishes a type from a
subtype or variant? Are there differences in defining Greek coin types of the Archaic-classical, Hellenistic
or Roman period?"
15:30
Data management for the MIB project with NUMISDATA
Manuel Gozalbes | Museu de Prehistòria de València
The task of collecting data on ancient coins of the Iberian Peninsula began 40 years ago. In the last
15 years, it has been necessary to design databases to gather information and keep it organized.
Within the framework of the ARCH project, NUMISDATA, a numismatic management tool for
researchers, is ready to gather all the previous information of the MIB project into a single
management system. The current project needs to import and manage over 100.000 coins with
images and supplementary information on hoards, finds, auctions, collections and bibliography.
NUMISDATA is the tool designed for that challenge.
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A short update on OSCAR (Online Swiss Coin Archive)
Christian Weiss | Swiss National Museum
Taking OCRE, CRRO and Pella as a role model, OSCAR aims to become a online-typology for Swiss
medieval and modern coinage. Starting in 2018 and planned to go live within three years, the first
few months were mainly devoted to gather the data for the type descriptions of the 17th to the
21st centuries and clarifying inconsistencies. This is a short update on the project and its possible
impacts on nomisma-IDs for medieval and modern numismatics in general.
May 4th, Friday
09:00
The PAS in 2018: What next?
Andrew Brown | The British Museum
As the PAS enters its third decade, some of the highlights of the last year demonstrate the
continued importance of recording archaeological material from around the UK and reveal new
information about coin loss in Britain. With more than 250,000 Roman coins now recorded
through the scheme, we have to consider what we do with this vast dataset and what new
information it can reveal about the spread of coinage over long periods of time. Focussing
particularly on discrete groups of coins, notably early Roman bronze issues of specific ‘British
Association’, I will look at how we can potentially use the PAS to reveal the spread, distribution
patterns, or indeed concentrations, of these specific coin types and what insight this might offer
with regard to coin use in Roman Britain.
09:20
Studying and preserving numismatic heritage: the CyReNe-Project
Alessandro Cattaneo | Università degli Studi di Padova
Cyrenaica and its main centre, Cyrene, have had a great importance in the ancient world during
both Greek-Hellenistic and Roman periods. This importance is clearly visible also through its
numismatic production, which is of considerable variety and interest, with few equals in the
ancient Mediterranean. In spite of this, the numismatic attention given to the region has
sometimes been inadequate and its coinage has remained marginalised in the context of the many
mints active during the antiquity.
In addition to this, the historical-political events that have taken place in Libya since 2011 and the
resulting continuous state of clashes and civil wars, have also led to the destruction and looting of
part of the cultural heritage of the region. The numismatic material, which is easy to export
illegally and then resold, has certainly been one of the hardest hit. The growing numbers of
specimens sold by auction houses and other sellers in the last seven years are obviously a direct
consequence of this.
The “CyReNe-Project "(Cyrenaican Research Numismatic e-Project), using the digital resources that
are becoming more and more popular in the humanities and through a global digital archiving of
these specimens, has the aim to create a tool, with a dual purpose of study - and consequent
enhancement - and of safeguarding, at least at the level of virtual data, the Cyrenaican numismatic
heritage. Some interesting results have already been achieved.
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Digital visibility of numismatic contributions to Research projects: DeAtlanTir
and CVB
Alicia Arévalo | Universidad de Cádiz
Elena Moreno | Universidad de Cádiz
This speech aims to propose the numismatic methodological approaching undertaken for two
research projects, currently in progress and focused in South Hispania.
On the one hand, for the project of the National R+D+I (HAR2014-58326-P) From the Atlantic
Ocean to the Tirreno Sea. Atlantic Baetican and Lusitanian ports and its commercial relations to
Ostia Antica, we have elaborated a Data Base of the coin findings from the ports of Ossonoba,
Balsa and Myrtilis. In a second step, we have accomplished the geo-referencing of these findings in
a GIS that will be an optimum complement to the other archaeological studies carried out in this
same project.
On the other hand, we present the Andalusian Research Plan (Ref. HUM2065) Roman cities of the
Baetica. CORPVS VRBIVM BAETICARVM (I) (CUB). In this case, we have assumed the elaboration of
two kinds of numismatics schedae, the first for the minting cities and the other about monetary
circulation in the urban ambits. This project also includes a free access online application where it
can be checked the compendius of the different schedae elaborated for the project, among of
them, there will be the numismatic ones.
10:00
New developements in the project KENOM
Mario Schlapke | Thüringisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege und Archäologie
A short persentation of new developements in the KENOM-project
10:10
NUMISDATA: management, research and publishing system for numismatic
heritage
Juan Francisco Onielfa Veneros | Render
Alejandro Peña Carbonell | Render
Since 1998 we are developing Dedalo, an open source project for the management, research and
publishing of Cultural Heritage. In the field of numismatics, we are building a specific model and
configuration of Dédalo called Numisdata. This build is designed for the specific management of
numismatics files and inherits Dédalo basis concepts of linked records, implementation of thesauri,
multi-language, permanent backup at field level, customizable access for records and fields and
powerful resources management, among other features.
Numisdata is based on an ontology created for developing «Moneda Ibérica» and «Sardinia»
projects and is fully compatible with Nomisma. The ontology manages the data and the
programming objects, it interprets the data and build the code for show, search, edit, export and
transform the whole archive information. Our core technology builds a new paradigm of Linked
Data for documents working in a NoSQL model. The information is stored in JSON format, and the
model has three abstraction layers: for data, ontology and programming. In the same way as
Dédalo, Numisdata is a long-term development project regularly updated with new features and
capabilities. Our objective is to achieve a flexible tool for managing, researching and publishing
numismatic catalogues of different kinds.
10:30
The NUMiD project
Karsten Dahmen | Münzkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
The Münzkabinett at the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin is one of the most important numismatic
collections in the world. 2017 marks the tenth anniversary of its ongoing project to digitalise its
collections and implement new methods of working on the semantic web. 2017 also sees the birth
of NUMiD, the Network of University Coin Collections in Germany (Netzwerk universitärer
Münzsammlungen in Deutschland).
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The oldest coin hoard from Denmark - a presentation
Helle Horsnæs | Nationalmuseet
During detector surveys amateur archaeologists have recovered what is today the earliest denarius
hoard from Denmark.
11:30
Hoards as a primary historical source - Based on the example of the Emona and
Čentur hoards
Leilani Štajer | University of Ljubljana
The aim in this presentation is to highlight the significance of hoard findings as a primary historical
source. I am going to discuss the level of reliability of such analysis and the interpretation of
antique hoards, as well as present the possible traps that lead to an insufficiently critical
interpretation. This will be presented on two examples - the most important Roman hoards found
in Slovenia - the Emona and the Čentur hoards.
11:40
The Iberian mint of ltirta. Hoards and coin findings between III-I Centuries BC.
Jose Manuel Torregrosa Yago | Universitat de València
ILTIRTA (the current city of Lleida, Cataluña) produced coins along three centuries. Iberian
imitations of Emporion silver drachmae and their fractions which copied the small silver coinage
issued by the city of Massalia, conformed part of this money that was used to cover the expenses
of the War for the romans. Moreover, minted silver denarius and quinarius and an important
volume of bronze coinage. We have studied nineteen hoards: eight with drachmae, eight that
contains denarius and only three with bronze coins. Almost, the total amount of casual coin
findings in the Iberian Peninsula reaches more than three hundred coins.
11:50
Project Finds of Roman Coins in Poland and connected with Pl. Małopolska
Team. Whatever happened to gold coins and other questions
Jarosław Bodzek | Jagiellonian University
The project “Finds of Roman Coins in Poland – Lesser Poland” is part of the larger project “Finds of
Roman Coins in Poland and connected historically with PL” (FRC PL), directed by Professor
Aleksander Bursche from the Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and funded
by a grant from “The National Programme for the Development of Humanities” of the Polish
Ministry of Science and Higher Education. Its timescale runs from 2013 to 2017. The project’s aim
is to create an online database that gathers into one place all material associated with
Roman coin finds from both Poland and some regions of neighbouring countries that once
formed part of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth. The team working on finds in Lesser Poland
includes Jarosław Bodzek, Kamil Kopij, Emilia Smagur, Jerzy Kliś and postgraduate students
studying at the Department of Classical Archaeology of the Jagiellonian University – Szymon
Jellonek, Barbara. Zając and Paulina Koczwara. The paper goal is to present some important
problems concerning the finds of Roman coins in Małopolska.
12:10
Some considerations about grave coin finds in the territory of Slovenia
Alenka Miškec | National museum of Slovenia
Our analysis included around 1200 coin finds from Roman graves in the territory of present-day
Slovenia. We analyzed the frequency of coins by emperors, material, and nominal values, as well
as their preservation. And we also verified the theory stating that coins placed in graves in the 1st
and 2nd centuries were also selected because of the personifications depicted on them, with
Fortuna, Salus, Felicitas, and Libertas supposed to be the most frequent ones.
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The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project (CHRE): 11,313 hoards and
counting! Recent progress and linked data
Marguerite Spoerri Butcher | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Cristian Gazdac | Romanian Academy, Institute of archaeology and Art History Cluj-Napoca
The aim of the current phase of The Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire project, directed by C.
Howgego and A. Wilson, is to collect summary hoard data from all Roman provinces, as well as to
input a selection of hoards at the level of the individual coin. More than 11,313 hoards and single
gold finds have now an entry on our web app (http://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk) and our network of
international collaborations extends to 22 countries.
Our presentation will encompass two aspects of recent work.
The first one will focus on the use of linked data within our project, exemplified through the case
of Switzerland, for which we now have an increased number of hoards described at coin level,
thanks to a collaboration with the Swiss Inventory of coin finds (SICF). Beyond linked data at coin
level, our bibliographical records are now being linked to the online library of the German
Archaeological Institute iDAI.bibliography / ZENON (https://zenon.dainst.org). Collaboration
currently extends to implementing online retro-links from Zenon to CHRE.
The second one will present recent progress made by team members of the project, but also
external collaborators or project partners. Focus has been put to extend our geographical coverage
to a larger number of countries including the Balkans, but also Turkey, France, the Netherlands or
Italy to name only a few. Furthermore, a lot of work has been accomplished in validating
previously entered hoards and cleaning data.
12:40
Tomares Hoard, Planning and Program for the Research
Ana D. Navarro | Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla
The hoard of Tomares is not completely exceptional, as similarly rich hoards from this period have
been found elsewhere in the Empire. The precise characterisation of the hoard of Tomares will
have to wait until a larger number of coins have been examined. The find comprised a total of
19 amphorae, 10 of which were broken as a consequence of the machine work. The other 9 were
complete and remained sealed. These amphorae belong to the well-known Dressel 23 type, which
was generally used for the transportation and storage of olive oil. The first problem is to determine
the exact number of coins in the hoard, given that the average weight of the amphorae is 35 kg.
These hoards include pieces dating to the Tetrarchy and from later, into the 4th century and the
reign of Constantine. It is the largest hoard ever to have been found in the Diocesis Baetica and the
whole of Hispania. This attests to the economic and strategic importance that Southern Spain and
the Guadalquivir Valley still had in the Late Empire.
12:50
Coin finds in "La Casa dels peixos" a domus in Saguntum
Tomás Hurtado Mullor | Universitat de València
We expose the coins appeared in a domus in Saguntum with a life dated between the end of the
1st century AD until the beginning of the fourth century, now musealized. The numismatic material
includes one Republican coin and Roman Empire coins, including one denarius of Vespasianus.
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EMC: New developments
Martin Allen | Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
At the meeting of ECFN/Nomisma.org in May 2017 I gave a presentation on ‘Finding the Past:
Twenty Years of EMC’. There have been significant new developments since that time. A
conference on EMC at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in October 2017 promoted new uses of
EMC data. EMC is now closely involved with a Leverhulme Trust funded project, Lordship and
Landscape in East Anglia AD 400−800, which began in November 2017 and is analysing finds from
Rendlesham and other sites in East Anglia. The EMC/SCBI website is being redesigned and is
expected to be relaunched before the meeting in May 2018.
14:30
Introduction to Nomisma.org
Questions and answers on Nomisma.org
Andrew Meadows | University of Oxford
David Wigg-Wolf | Römisch-Germanische Kommission
Nomisma.org is a collaborative project to provide stable digital representations of numismatic
concepts according to the principles of Linked Open Data. These take the form of http URIs that
also provide access to reusable information about those concepts, along with links to other
resources. The canonical format of nomisma.org is RDF/XML, with serializations available in JSONLD (including geoJSON-LD for complex geographic features), Turtle, KML (when applicable), and
HTML5+RDFa 1.1. While the URIs provided by nomisma.org are stable, the project is in progress
and subject to constant expansion and ongoing correction. This is particularly the case for the
information provided about each nomisma.org identifier. The information provided by
nomisma.org has been provided by a wide community of scholars and insitutions.
May 5th, Saturday
09:00
Photographing Coins
Ulrich Werz | Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege
An necessary part of the documentation of coins is, besides identification and inclusion in a
databank, the creation of a photographic record. In order to photograph large numbers of coins
from finds and collections, a plug-in and batchfile have been created, which allow the backgrounds
to be removed from coin images, the images to be fixed in a ratio of 1:1 and these to be given a
title. The essential data relating to the individual coins, including their findspot and archaeological
context, is then appended to the photographs as metadata.
09:10
IIIF, Web Annotation, and Numismatics
Ethan Gruber | American Numismatic Society
The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is a community-driven open specification
for image APIs and metadata. Initially developed by university libraries for publication of high
resolution images of Special Collections materials, it has been adopted by numerous Nomisma.org
partners, including the American Numismatic Society, the KENOM project, Bibliothèque nationale
de France, Harvard Art Museums, and others. The implementation of IIIF within the Nomisma data
model enables zooming of high resolution images in Online Coins of the Roman Empire (OCRE) and
similar type corpus projects. It also allows "packaging" of all relevant images pertaining to a single
coin type, which will also facilitate the annotation of monograms, symbols, and iconographic
motifs (by linking to relevant URIs), paving the way to new modes of inquiry and coin description.
This presentation will provide a brief overview of the specification, its current use cases in OCRE,
and the potentials for standardized annotation.
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Converting Germany’s Roman Coin Finds to LOD - an exemplary workflow for
the FMRD project
Timo Kissinger | Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur – Mainz
The project „Fundmünzen der römischen Zeit in Deutschland“ (FMRD) was created in 1953 to
record all Roman coins found in Germany. From 1986 onwards FMRD was funded by the Academy
of Sciences and Literature | Mainz. The project was completed in 2009. In its 56 years of existence
FMRD published over 40 volumes, the first one published in 1960. At the moment these volumes
are only available as printed books. In order to make the research results of FMRD accessible to a
broader audience and to open up this rich numismatic resource for further use by the scientific
community, an exemplary workflow has been developed that converts the coin finds of the printed
volumes to Linked Open Data (LOD). The coin finds from the excavation of the cathedral at Trier
were selected as a first use case.
The first step of the workflow extracts the coin data from PDF documents as XML. During
development this process proved to be challenging due to the large number of inconsistencies in
the original data. After that, the XML is transformed to a standard compliant TEI/XML document.
In a next step, the number of data columns is normalized and the coin data is then transferred into
a LOD model using the nomisma.org ontology. The modeled data is finally converted from XML
into RDF with the help of the XTriples webservice. The resulting semantically enriched data set can
be queried with SPARQL and data visualizations can be created easily using JavaScript libraries like
sgvizler.
09:30
Rethinking French numismatics : terminology, typology, nomisma
Florence Codine | Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
The EPHE is currently in the fist stages of creating a database for French numismatics. In the first
year of this project, the members of Marc Bompaire's seminar on medieval and modern
numismatics and monetary history have been discussing the terminology and the structural
requirements of such a database. Beyond the simple addition of new nomisma IDs, this has led to
several ideas regarding possible evolutions of the nomisma ontology.
09:40
Representation of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus and their targeted
audience
Martin Baer | Universität Wien, Institut für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte
Past studies on the representation of the co-emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus were
mainly concentrated on the analysis of coin types. Thus the importance of a topic were only built
on the amount of coin types in RIC, BMC or MIR, which is problematic because the definition of a
coin type differs from each catalogue. Additionally, we can only speculate for whom the coin types
were made for.
A much better way of understanding the importance of coin types is using coin hoards, which are
abundant since the end of the 2nd century AD. Quantifying and tracking the coins from hoards
gives us an impression whether the coin types were made for a broader audience or for a specific
one. In my presentation I will therefore quantify the data from coin hoards, compare the
representation of the co-emperors, and take a look at where the coins went to. For this study my
analysis will be based on more than 200 hoards containing aurei and denarii from all over Western
Europe.
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Julio-Claudian Coin Hoards from Hispaniae. Problems, Method of Work and
Digital Dissemination
David Martínez Chico | Universitat de València
This conference talk presents part of our thesis developed on the coin hoards found in Hispania
and dated between Augustus and fifth century A.D. Obviously in this work, countries like Spain and
Portugal are included. The first two centuries are finished and at present we are collecting the
hoards of next century, where there are other mints and not only Rome. In accordance with this,
we discuss work guidelines, problems, method of work and, finally, digital dissemination in Coin
Hoards of the Roman Empire Project’s app.
After making the summaries of each coin hoards, according to their coins, mints, metal and
monetary type, we can see an interesting evolution of coin supply, injected from Rome and
accompanied with the Iberian and Hispanic provincial coinages during the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
For other chronologies, we can affirm that the Hispanic provincial coinage circulated until the first
half of the 3rd century A.D. A great and scarce example for this last one is ‘Los Torrejones’ hoard,
from Yecla (Murcia), thanks to coin minted in Cartago Nova by Caligula.
10:10
The Sardinia website. Coin finds in Terralba area
Pere Pau Ripollès | Universitat de València
In the previous ECFN meeting we presented the database of the findings in Terralba area, Sardinia.
It was built with the data management system NumisData. Now we present the visualisation of the
results via a website. The structure covers all fields related to coins and findspots through maps
and diagrams.
The present study assembles diverse pieces found in a total of 143 archaeological sites, including
the recent findings of Truncu 'e Molas excavation (Terralba, Oristano), discovered during the
campaigns of 2007, and those published by R. Zucca (1987: 142-143). The coins studied amount to
a total of 396 specimens, excluding the pieces of dubious classification and poor preservation, the
final catalogue consists of 364 coins. The findspots have been identified as Punic farms, necropolis
and Roman villae. This website demonstrates that the coin databases using NumisData
management system can be easily transformed in an efficacious research tool (website) for
scholars, as well as enthusiasts.
10:20
I.Num.Sic. A new project on coin epigraphy
Mariangela Puglisi | Università degli Studi di Messina
Jonathan Prag | Merton College, University of Oxford
I.Sicily is an online TEI-XML (EpiDoc) corpus of the inscriptions of ancient Sicily
(http://sicily.classics.ox.ac.uk and https://isicily.wordpress.com). The corpus has been live and the
focus of ongoing editing and development since January 2017. Currently the corpus contains
inscriptions on stone in all languages from the Archaic to the Late Antique periods, but is extending
coverage to include inscriptions on other media. The project places a strong emphasis on autopsy
and direct collaboration with Sicilian museums and archaeological authorities. Within this
framework, we aim to develop a parallel and integrated corpus of the legends on ancient Sicilian
coins (I.Num.Sic. = Inscriptiones Nummorum Siciliae), exploiting the text-focused potential of
EpiDoc and seeking to integrate coin legends within a holistic study of ancient Sicilian textual
culture. The time appears to be ripe for such a project, both from a technical perspective - the
existence of the Nomisma and EpiDoc communities, and the active projects to develop SigiDoc and
Linked Open Data standards for EpiDoc – and from a numismatic perspective – the imminent
completion of Historia Numorum3, Sicily and Adjacent Islands. This presentation will sketch the
aims and framework of the project and explore some of the conceptual challenges facing a project
focused on cataloguing legends.
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Unification of databases: difficulties and solutions/suggestions. A practical
case, Museo Casa de la Moneda
José María Pérez García | Museo Casa de la Moneda
In the museum Casa de la Moneda of Madrid our stock exceeds two hundred thousand
exhibits with the permanent exposition and the archives. The variety of it is quite diverse, as we
have coins, medals, postal stamps, bank notes, drawings, engravings, machines, etc. at our
disposal. In order to unify the pre-existing documentation of all the exhibits an exclusive operating
system has been developed but the results were not the expected ones because it did not make
the collection of data easier in a clear and concise way. In addition, we deal with the difficulty of
constantly receiving new samples from the production of the FNMT. We are currently working on
creating a unified and efficient system which allows for including new samples and which is more
accessible and thus able to show the precise information of each collection.
11:30
Iberian numismatics in context
Paula Granados | The Open University
From the 19th century onwards, coins started to gain recognition as archaeological objects. Since
then, numismatics has constituted itself as a main discipline within the field of History and the
study of the different types of currency has become a foremost source of information. Traditional
approaches in Spanish numismatics focused mainly on the cataloguing of the rich collections,
however lacking any connection between the coin specimen and its archaeological context.
Current approaches are looking for new ways to link the specimen not just with similar types but
also with its cultural context as well as other archaeological remains that could bring some new
information about both the minter and the coin itself.
In this scenario, Digital Humanities are taking the lead on proposing new ways to provide the
numismatic record with a relevant context. During the last decade, traditional data management
systems (i.e. graph or relational databases) proved their efficiency in gathering and making
accessible large amounts of data. The Hesperia project for example provides access to a significant
corpus of paleo Hispanic inscriptions and coin legends online (Granados 2017). Nevertheless,
traditional databases present limitations in the access, processing, querying and general
interoperability of the information.
Linked Open Data technologies have proved to be a successful alternative to overcome these
restrictions. My research explores the current landscape and technological offer of archaeological
data coming from the Iberian Peninsula including coins, sculptures and epigraphy and looks into
venues for improving upon it regarding the question of cultural contact in Early Roman Baetica.
Initial research has proved that Spanish archaeological data is still hardly accessible online,
institutional databases constitute closed-world data silos that allow very little access to the
information and impede the data querying and processing. This paper will expand on the current
state of the art and will present some possible measures to overcome such problems.
11:50
VINDONISSA re-visited
Rahel C. Ackermann | Swiss Inventory of Coin Finds
Vindonissa is the only legion's camp in today's Switzerland. The military presence has a huge
impact on the coin circulation in our country. But the Vindonissa coins finds are but partially
published. In a joint project of the SICF and the local archaeological service we (re-)study all
findings 1950-2016 an bring the core data together in our database.
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Tokens and Token Moulds in Roman Ostia
Clare Rowan | The University of Warwick
While the lead tokens and token moulds of the city of Rome have seen some focus in previous
scholarship, there has been significantly less attention paid to the lead tokens and marble moulds
in the port of Ostia. This paper presents the ongoing efforts to catalogue the tokens and moulds
found in the city as part of the ERC Project “Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean”.
Tokens and moulds have been recorded online according to Nomisma ontology and the principles
of Linked Open Data, and are connected to detailed descriptions of find spots. This overview of
finds, the first created for Ostia, reveals that Rome and its port shared a ‘token making tradition’
and provides some suggestion as to the possible uses of these otherwise elusive objects.
12:20
Recent developments and future challenges in studying ancient and Byzantine
weights (Pondera Online)
Lysiane Delanaye | Université catholique de Louvain
Charles Doyen | FNRS / UCLouvain
This presentation aims to describe the most recent developments in the Pondera Online Project.
12:30
Barbarian coinage: the online corpus of the Visigoths
Ruth Pliego | Institute for Advanced Study - Paris
In recent years, there has been a significant interest on the cultural heritage and European identity
and one of the challenges of the Strategic Research Agenda is digitizing Europe’s cultural heritage
aiming to make available online the collections conserved in museums and other institutions. In
this context some of those, principally in the framework of Numisma.org, have developed
interesting thematic projects with the coinage of the Roman world being the main subject.
Although in recent times new projects contemplate the coins of other historical periods (e.g. Greek
and Iberian coinage), the only thematic resource related with the Migration Period is The Early
Medieval Corpus (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), which is the first attempt to collect all the
coins found in the British Islands (410-1180). This paper focuses on the importance of establishing
an online corpus of the coinage of the Early Middle Age that includes globally the coinage of the
emerging Germanic kingdoms. Despite the difficulty that such work entails, thanks to a fellowship
at the Institut d’Études Avancées of Paris it has been possible to start this project, using for the
pilot phase a modest coinage and involved in a controversial in the Spanish historiography: the socalled Visigoth copper. Taking into account that an increasing number of museums and cultural
institutions have incipiently put online their numismatics funds, in the mid-term, this online corpus
would include the gold Visigothic coinage, as well as series minted by other Migration Period
peoples.
12:50
Use of ancient coins in East-Central Europe in the medieval and modern periods
- a new numismatic project
Arkadiusz Dymowski | University of Warsaw
The use of ancient coins, first of all the Roman ones, in East-Central Europe in the early Middle
Ages and on until the modern period, as a phenomenon spanning several consecutive historical
periods, demands an interdisciplinary approach. A study into the research problems will need to
be conducted outside of the schemata of research limited to just one chronological period or to
just one category of sources. The new project conducted at the University of Warsaw focuses
primarily on numismatic research, it will also encompass research drawing from fields such as
history, archaeology and ethnology, particularly in the context of the Middle Ages and the modern
period. Two aspects of the research problem will need to be considered. First of all, one must
examine the sources of ancient coins used in East-Central Europe throughout the Middle Ages and
the modern period. Secondly, the project focuses on establishing the functions of ancient coinage
during the times between 7th and the turn of 18th century.
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The New Material Evidence of the Umayyad Conquest of Hispania, 711-756. The
Leads Seals
Tawfiq Ibrahim | Real Academia de la Historia
The recent discovery, in the last four decades, of more than a 150 lead seals in the Iberian
Peninsula and the Gallic Narbonne all clearly covering the period of the Umayyad conquest and
their governors has been a major contribution to a difficult, controversial and very pationatedly
debated historical period. A period which was only covered very late in chronically foundational
recalling's, in Latin and Arabic, done mostly a couple centuries later and more. To these last there
is one very short but important exception, the only one composed in the Peninsula contemporary
to the actual event, the anonymous Cronica de 754. It is this last, a very deeply pained but very
objective lament as viewed from the perspective of the subjected and conquered which seems to
fully concord to the forceful events, the military and economic, that these seals seem to cover.
Previous to the discovery of these lead seals the only undisputable material evidence of this
pivotal historical period had been the coinage. Certainly a important material evidence well
studied since the 19th century covering its early sequential time development: Latin, bilingual and
Arabic. An important evidence which aside, from its great quality, metal content and esthetic
epigraphy, only gives us very limited punctual information, mostly a generic indications of a
general geographic area (Hispania, Hesperidia and the enigmatic al-Andalus), the yearly Hidjra
dating and a single always repeated ideological/religious message.
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