From commodity to money: The rise of silver coinage around the Ancient Mediterranean (sixth-first centuries bce).
Ag isotopes
Mediterranean
Pb isotopes
monetization
silver coinage
Journal
Archaeometry
ISSN: 0003-813X
Titre abrégé: Archaeometry
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101588960
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2021
Feb 2021
Historique:
received:
17
06
2020
revised:
21
09
2020
accepted:
22
09
2020
entrez:
29
1
2021
pubmed:
30
1
2021
medline:
30
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
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
Identifiants
pubmed: 33510540
doi: 10.1111/arcm.12615
pii: ARCM12615
pmc: PMC7821003
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
142-155Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Archaeometry published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of University of Oxford.
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