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Integration of data on coin finds into the ARIADNE portal presents a number of challenges, partly because the data is being provided not from primarily numismatic projects and institutions, but rather from disparate archaeological resources that integrate a wide range of artefacts and records. As a result, there is generally little focus on more specialised aspects of the numismatic data. This presentation looks at the issues with the Getty AAT with respect to numismatic data and also with using CIDOC CRM for modelling. Potentially, many of these problems can be mitigated by using the Nomisma vocabulary and ontology. For example, the vocabulary aims to provide persistent identifiers for all required concepts, such as all the denominations of the Augustan coinage system for which Getty is incomplete. work is ongoing with colleagues from ARIADNEplus to investigate ways in which the Nomisma vocabulary and ontology can be integrated into the aggregation portal in order to provide more easily implemented and granular standardised modelling, thus increasing both the quantity and quality of accessible data. Already, as an interim measure, building on pre-existing models in the ARIADNE portal, a CIDOC-based model has been developed that is being tested on datasets from a number of different data providers. {"references": ["Debole, F., Meghini, C., Geser, G. and Tudhope, D. (n.d.). D15.2: Report on the ARIADNE Linked Data Cloud. Available at http://legacy.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/resources-2/deliverables/d15-2-report-on-the-ariadne-linked-data-cloud/", "Gruber, E. and Meadows, A. (2021). 'Numismatics and Linked Open Data', ISAW Papers 20 (6). Available at http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/q83bkdqf", "Tolle, K., Wigg-Wolf, D. and Gruber, E. (2018). 'An Ontology for a Numismatic Island with Bridges to Others', in M. Matsumoto and E. Uleberg (eds.), Oceans of Data. Proceedings of the 44th Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (Oxford) pp. 103\u2013108."]}

L’analisi storiografica dell’uso rituale delle monete nei contesti funerari dell’Italia settentrionale ci permette di esaminare diversi approcci interpretativi, oltre a evidenziare possibili lacune che non sono state approfondite. L’obiettivo è quello di individuare queste mancanze, suggerendo nuove linee di ricerca e dimostrando che la presenza di monete in contesti funerari può fornire interessanti spunti per lo studio della società del passato. Historiographical analysis of the ritual use of coins in funerary contexts in northern Italy allows us to examine differing interpretive approaches to the issue, and to highlight possible lacunas which have not been explored further. I aim to identify these gaps, suggesting new avenues of research, and demonstrating that the presence of coins in funerary contexts can yield interesting perspectives for the study of past societies Finanziato dall’Unione Europea attraverso il programma Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Actions

Hacksilber facilitated trade and transactions from the beginning of the second millennium BCE until the late fourth century BCE in the southern Levant. Here we demonstrate the use of new, data-driven statistical approaches to interpret high-precision Pb isotope analysis of silver found in archaeological contexts for provenance determination. We sampled 46 pieces of International audience

PAThs - Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths: An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature (P.I. Paola Buzi) is an ERC Advance project based at the Sapienza University of Rome. It focuses on compiling a catalogue of literary manuscripts in Coptic language, organized by their archaeological and geographical contexts. The Atlas is an open access publishing platform, built on the top of open source technologies and backed up by a web database based on Bradypus system, a MIT licensed RDBMS highly specialized in the management of archaeological and other cultural heritage data. The Atlas and the web database are being constructed to become a linking hub for automated access to the data by third party software and other applications. Specific interconnecting output formats (mainly RDF) are being developed to link this platform to other collaborative systems (such as those developed by Pelagios Commons) utilizing geographical representation, i.e. places, as a common reference point.

En este artículo se analizan los criterios que llevaron a determinadas comunidades a grabar sus leyendas monetarias en una lengua diferente de la que registra la epigrafía coetánea, y se valora en qué casos esta elección lingüística responde a la necesidad de una construcción de la identidad y en cuáles esta decisión se debe a otro tipo de causas, vinculadas estrechamente con el cambio lingüístico que se produjo a lo largo de los dos últimos siglos a. C. y el primero d. C. en el occidente mediterráneo. This paper explores the reasons why the language of the coin legends issued by certain communities is different from the language attested in the epigraphic record, distinguishing those cases where the linguistic choice was the result of the need of constructing a civic identity from those where this decision was due to other kind of causes, narrowly linked to the linguistic shift that was currently happening in the Western Mediterranean when these coins were produced (2nd cent. BC – 1st cent. AD).

International audience; This paper attempts to give a first overview of coin circulation during late La Tène, using data recorded for the northern half of France in the database of the rural settlements of the Mid and Late Iron Age (coord. G. Blancquaert, F. Malrain, T. Lorho), supplemented by new data (all data are presented at the end of the article). The paper first presents the database and discusses possible biases in the data. It then goes on examining the distribution of coins in space and time between the various French administrative regions. Subsequently, it examines the archaeological find contexts on various sites, in order to better understand how coins were used in the countryside. One of the results of this enquiry is that coins in the countryside are not as rare as generally thought.; L'article tente une première synthèse de la circulation monétaire rurale à La Tène finale à partir des données répertoriées pour la moitié nord de la France dans la base de données des établissements ruraux du second âge du Fer (coord. G. Blancquaert, F. Malrain, T. Lorho), complétées par un nouveau dépouillement (les données sont présentées dans une annexe à la fin de l'article). Après avoir présenté la base de données et discuté des biais d'enregistrement possibles, l'article aborde la répartition des monnaies dans l'espace et dans le temps entre les différentes régions administratives françaises. Il se penche ensuite sur les contextes de découverte sur les sites, afin de mieux cerner les usages faits du numéraire en milieu rural. Il en ressort notamment que les monnaies ne sont pas aussi rares en milieu rural qu'on a pu le penser.

The reasons why the Western Mediterranean, especially Carthage and Rome, resisted monetization relative to the Eastern Mediterranean are still unclear. We address this question by combining lead (Pb) and silver (Ag) isotope abundances in silver coinage from the Aegean, Magna Graecia, Carthage and Roman Republic. The clear relationships observed between 109Ag/107Ag and 208Pb/206Pb reflect the mixing of silver ores or silver objects with Pb metal used for cupellation. The combined analysis of Ag and Pb isotopes reveals important information about the technology of smelting. The Greek world extracted Ag and Pb from associated ores, whereas, on the Iberian Peninsula, Carthaginians and Republican‐era Romans applied Phoenician cupellation techniques and added exotic Pb to Pb‐poor Ag ores. Massive Ag recupellation is observed in Rome during the Second Punic War. After defeating the Carthaginians and the Macedonians in the late second century bce, the Romans brought together the efficient, millennium‐old techniques of silver extraction of the Phoenicians, who considered this metal a simple commodity, with the monetization of the economy introduced by the Greeks.

In discussions about the ancient economy, it is still customary to oppose city-dwellers, markets and the monetary economy on the one hand, to autarchic peasants practising barter and using money only on rare occasions on the other hand. However, in the last decades, this view has been increasingly challenged by new archaeological research. Building on recent and sometimes unpublished data, this book seeks to shed new light on coin circulation and money use in the countryside in Northern Gaul.A series of case studies addresses the topic in various regions from France, Switzerland, Belgium, as well as Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the problem is tackled in the “longue durée”, from the 2nd c. BC to the 5th c. AD, in order to understand fully the effects, first of the Roman conquest on Iron Age Gaul, second of the transition from the Principate to Late Antiquity. D’un côté, on trouverait les citadins, le monde marchand et l’économie monétaire ; de l’autre, des campagnards autarciques pratiquant le troc, n’utilisant la monnaie qu’en de rares occasions. Encore répandue, cette vision de l’économie antique est pourtant mise à mal depuis quelques décennies par les progrès de la recherche archéologique. En se fondant sur ces données récentes, dont certaines inédites, cet ouvrage cherche à comprendre comment la monnaie circulait dans le monde rural de la Gaule du Nord.Le problème est abordé dans une série d’études de cas couvrant largement la moitié nord de la France, la Suisse, la Belgique, ainsi que le Luxembourg, l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas. L’étude est menée sur la longue durée, depuis le iie s. a.C. jusqu’au ve s. p.C., afin d’évaluer au mieux les effets de la conquête romaine, puis du passage du Principat à l’Antiquité tardive. International audience

International audience; In discussions about the ancient economy, it is still customary to oppose city-dwellers, markets and the monetary economy on the one hand, to autarchic peasants practising barter and using money only on rare occasions on the other hand. However, in the last decades, this view has been increasingly challenged by new archaeological research. Building on recent and sometimes unpublished data, this book seeks to shed new light on coin circulation and money use in the countryside in Northern Gaul.A series of case studies addresses the topic in various regions from France, Switzerland, Belgium, as well as Luxembourg, Germany and the Netherlands. Furthermore, the problem is tackled in the “longue durée”, from the 2nd c. BC to the 5th c. AD, in order to understand fully the effects, first of the Roman conquest on Iron Age Gaul, second of the transition from the Principate to Late Antiquity.; D’un côté, on trouverait les citadins, le monde marchand et l’économie monétaire ; de l’autre, des campagnards autarciques pratiquant le troc, n’utilisant la monnaie qu’en de rares occasions. Encore répandue, cette vision de l’économie antique est pourtant mise à mal depuis quelques décennies par les progrès de la recherche archéologique. En se fondant sur ces données récentes, dont certaines inédites, cet ouvrage cherche à comprendre comment la monnaie circulait dans le monde rural de la Gaule du Nord.Le problème est abordé dans une série d’études de cas couvrant largement la moitié nord de la France, la Suisse, la Belgique, ainsi que le Luxembourg, l’Allemagne et les Pays-Bas. L’étude est menée sur la longue durée, depuis le iie s. a.C. jusqu’au ve s. p.C., afin d’évaluer au mieux les effets de la conquête romaine, puis du passage du Principat à l’Antiquité tardive.