CfP: Ancient coin legends: composition, design, lexicography, and framing potential,
Munich, Residenz München,
26–28 June 2025
As essential part of coinage, ancient coin legends have, however, received much less attention than the imagery that has been intensively studied by numismatists, historians, archaeologists, iconographists, and others. While legends have been often used for die studies, that is, from a rather technical point of view, or for solving chronological issues as well as analysis of political key messages, they promise to raise new research questions with regard to semantic, aesthetic, and socio-cultural aspects.
We invite papers that approach coin legends from a theoretical-methodological perspective or offer insights through case-studies. In particular, we seek contributions to the panels “coin legends and interdisciplinary studies”, “coin legends in the Greek & Hellenistic world”, or “coin legends during the Roman Republic”. Confirmed participants are (in alphabetical order): Sven Betjes, François de Callataÿ, Andreas Grüner, Fleur Kemmers, Clare Rowan, Ute Wartenberg. Keynote speaker is Stephanie Geise. The conference will be held in hybrid format. It is supported by the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, the Staatliche Münzsammlung München, and the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik. Selected papers are intended to be published in a special issue of the double-blind peer-reviewed Journal of Ancient Civilizations (JAC).
For the full CfP, please consider the attached PDF document.
Organisers: Elisabeth Günther, Institute for Classical Archaeology and Byzantine Archaeology, University of Heidelberg; Hongxia Zhang and Sven Günther, both Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), Northeast Normal University, Changchun, China
Deadline for abstracts: 31 October 2024
Abstract submissions shall be sent to: Sven Günther; sveneca(at)aol(dot)com / svenguenther(at)nenu.edu(dot)cn