Download or read book Coinage of Arabia Felix written by Stuart C. Munro-Hay and published by Archaeopress Archaeology. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mare Erythraeum is an occasional series, dealing with the ethnography and archaeology of the lands bordering the Red Sea and their links with the Indian ocean. This is the sixth volume in this series. The coinage of the South Arabian Peninsula has not been studied in detail since 1922, when G. F. Hill published his catalogue of the British Museum collection. This work is the sixth in this series, and follows on from previous editions which examined coinage from Aksum. South Arabia is an area of study which is of great interest in terms of the historical and cultural significance of the region. The coinage of the Yemen from Pre-Islamic times is an important factor contributing towards the study of the iconography and symbolism of the people of this period, and displays important elements of the continuity and disturbances in the Yemen at this time. Munro-Hay links this information to known historical and archaeological developments in the Yemen in terms of religious, political and cultural factors. Munro-Hay,carried out extensive work cataloguing a large number of coins from the site of Shabwa in Hadhramawt, as well as a preliminary survey of coins from Hajar Am-Dhaybiyya. This information, along with the collection of the National Museum at Aden and other various collections, revealed several new types of coin, and form the main body of work for this book. The coinage studied shows itself to be richer than previously thought, and although these new types of coin greatly improve our understanding of the coinage of Southern Arabia, this is still an area where new finds are constantly being made, such as coins of the royal series or from the copper or bronze 'bucranium' series. Because ofthis the numbering system used by Munro-Hay in this study takes into account the expectation of future finds, thereby making this a flexible catalogue of study even if circumstances in this field change radically.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Greek Coins of Arabia written by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pre Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia written by Daniel T. Potts and published by Museum Tusculanum Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A presentation of the various indigenous coin issues that circulated in Eastern Arabia during the pre-Islamic era as attested in five private collections studied by the author. The basis for the classification is a corpus of 529 coins selected from those collections for publication here. Geographically, the coins came from two distinct regions which today comprise the Eastern Province of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Emirate of Umm al-Qaiwain in the United Arab Emirates. Foreign issues were rare in these areas, although a handful of Sasanian, Roman, Seleucid, Greek, Phoenician, Nabataean, Elymaean, Parthian and Sabaean coins have been attested to in the collections that form the basis of this work.
Download or read book The Coin Collector written by Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arabia Felix written by Rosemarie Richter and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1994 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles in German, Arabic, English, French and Italian.
Download or read book The Ancient Coinage of Southern Arabia written by Sir George Francis Hill and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ancient Coinage of Southern Arabia Classic Reprint written by George Francis Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Ancient Coinage of Southern Arabia Hitherto the coins of Southern Arabia have always been classed together as 'Himyarite'. It will be seen that the greater part of them must be divided between Sabaeans and Himyarites, and also that there is ground for distinguishing two small groups of coins, one attributable to the Minaeans, the other to the Katabanians (people of Kataban), although this latter group can only be regarded as subordinate to the main Himyarite series. Three out of the four tribes mentioned by Strabo are thus provided with a coinage. Since the rise of the Himyarites to power probably did not take place before the middle of the second century B.C., when their capital at Sapphar regia (Sqfar, near Yerim) superseded the old Sabaean capital at Mariaba (Marib the earliest series of the coins with which we are concerned should strictly be regarded as Sabaean rather than Himyarite. Nevertheless, the chronology is so uncertain, and the series are interlaced in so curious a way, that it is very difficult to draw any line between them. Roughly speaking, we may assume that the earliest coins, which are direct imitations of the earlier Attic coinage, belong to the Sabaean period, while the later, flat coins (of that which we may for convenience call the Sana class), 1 with a reverse type derived from the Attic coinage of the New Style, the small coins with names and heads of various kings, and the bucranium series must certainly belong to the Himyarite period. But there are certain single coins, or small groups, which, although in fabric and types they look fairly early, seem by their monograms and inscriptions to be intimately connected with the Sana class, apparently so much later. The following is an attempt at a provisional classification of the various series. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Arabia Felix written by Thorkild Hansen and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the riveting true story of the 18th-century expedition that left only one survivor in this lost classic of adventure and travel writing—with 33 drawings and maps. Arabia Felix is the spellbinding true story of a scientific expedition gone disastrously awry. On a winter morning in 1761 6 men leave Copenhagen by sea—a botanist, a philologist, an astronomer, a doctor, an artist, and their manservant—an ill-assorted band of men who dislike and distrust one another from the start. These are the members of the Danish expedition to Arabia Felix, as Yemen was then known, the first organized foray into a corner of the world unknown to Europeans. The expedition made its way to Turkey and Egypt, by which time its members were already actively seeking to undercut and even kill one another, before disappearing into the harsh desert that was their destination. Nearly 7 years later a single survivor returned to Denmark to find himself forgotten and all the specimens that had been sent back ruined by neglect. Based on diaries, notebooks, and sketches that lay unread in Danish archives until the twentieth century, Arabia Felix is a tale of intellectual rivalry and a comedy of very bad manners, as well as an utterly absorbing adventure.
Download or read book Coinage in the Roman Economy 300 B C to A D 700 written by Kenneth W. Harl and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-07-12 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700, noted classicist and numismatist Kenneth W. Harl brings together these two fields in the first comprehensive history of how Roman coins were minted and used.
Download or read book Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum written by Stanley Lane-Poole and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia Small Silver Coins written by Roger Dewardt Lane and published by Roger deWardt Lane. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Softcover book - The latest incarnation of Brother Can You Spare A Dime? - Modern Dime Size Silver Coins of the World with Footnotes to History has been published in a Third Edition. This work, a many year project to study these coins as miniature engravings of Art and History, was first published in 1997. Several years later a CD-rom was produced as the Second Edition. The author won a Numismatic Literary Guild Award for this Edition. The Third Edition, a 600 page book with over a thousand enlarged scans of the coins from the mid 1800's to 1970 show coins from around the world - Afghanistan to Yemen. These coins were the money of the people at the time; one would represent a days work, purchase a meal or a night's entertainment. Kings, Queens and Statesmen are portrayed on dozens, with little biographies of many. More than a numismatic book, this anthology is a fine way to develop a better understanding of money in use during the previous two centuries. A great addition to your numismatic library.
Download or read book Catalogue of Oriental Coins in the British Museum Volume 5 written by S.Lane-Poole and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coins of the Moors of Africa and Spain: And the Kings and Im?ms of the Yemen: in the British Museum. Classes XIVb XXVII
Download or read book Coins written by Government Museum (Chennai, India) and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coins of Ancient India from the Earliest Times Down to the Seventh Century A D written by Sir Alexander Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians written by John Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Numismatic Circular and Catalogue of Coins Tokens Commemorative War Medals Books Cabinets written by Spink & Son and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the History and Coinage of the Parthians with Descriptive Catalogues and Tables Illustrated with Engravings written by John LINDSAY (Barrister-at-Law.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
