- Credits: 5
- SSD: L-ANT/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Archaeological Heritage (cod. 0546)
Learning outcomes
Students will learn how to identify and catalogue coins of various periods and how to create repertories and data bases; they will be able to utilize the great amount of data that the monetary source offers for the historical reading of a territory and for museum exposition; they will learn how to interpret coin finds in archaeological contexts.
Course contents
1) Coinage in the ancient world: characteristics and functions.
2) Interpreting coin finds.
3) Exhibition and didactic exploitation of coins.
Students who cannot follow lessons must contact the teacher for further reading.
Students can also require programs about medieval or modern numismatics
Readings/Bibliography
Ercolani Cocchi E., a cura di, Dal baratto all'euro. La storia della moneta dalle origini ai giorni nostri, CD Rom e volume, Firenze, Edolimpia, 2003.
Misurare e valutare: amministrazione, economia e politica nel mondo romano, in Pondera. Pesi e misure nell'antichità, a cura di Carla Corti e Nicoletta Giordani, Modena 2001 ISBN 88-86 143-14-1, pp.113-141
Ercolani Cocchi E., Un'economia monetaria in Storia dell'economia mondiale, vol. I, a cura di V.Castronovo, Bari 1996, pp. 175 - 192.
Ercolani E. - Morelli A. - Neri D., a cura di, Romanizzazione e moneta. La testimonianza dei rinvenimenti dall'Emilia Romagna. Quaderni di Archeologia dell'Emilia Romagna 10, Firenze 2004.
Ercolani Cocchi E., La numismatica, in G.Poma, a cura di, Le fonti per la storia antica, Il Mulino, Bologna 2008.
Teaching methods
During lessons the teacher will explain main features and functions of ancient coinage and its history from the beginning to the late antiquity, with examples related to its interpretation in historical and archaeological context.Lessons will be held about using catalogues to identify coins and about compiling informatic records.Visits to numismatic collections and expositions atre foreseen too.
Assessment methods
The final proof is an oral exam to ascertain that during lessons students acquired and understood arguments and methods and that thy are able to utilize them from a critical point of wiew. The teacher will ask to recognise and to date coins and ensembles which have been illustrated during the lessons or in suggested bibliography
Teaching tools
Teaching tools:
Video projector, enlightened board; PC; Laboratory with computers, Repertories and Catalogues (Ancient History Department' s Library). Photocopies of images, tables and sources.
At the address: http://www.numismatica.unibo.it , one can find informations about lectures, seminars, and exhibitions.