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Gkikaki, Mairi (2021) Tokens for festivals in Hellenistic Athens. In: Crisa, Antonino, (ed.) Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring monetiform objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Bruxelles: Cercle d'Études Numismatiques, pp. 57-75. ISBN 9782930948096
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Abstract
Through the analogy of their Roman counterparts it is thought that tokens in Athens were issued on the occasion of festivals. Otto Benndorf in his publication on the ancient Greek theatre (1875) was the first to connect Athenian tokens to the theōrika, the free distributions offered by the state for attending theatre performances and festivals in general. Since then, the assumption has been repeated many times. The organisation of the Athenian festivals shows the need for exchange tokens. Legends and designs on many of the Athenian tokens can be plausibly explained as tokens for festival distributions. The paper relies heavily on the objects themselves and explores the intersection between the festival imagery on coins and tokens. A catalogue of festival tokens is provided as an appendix.
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics D History General and Old World > DF Greece G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GT Manners and customs |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Classics and Ancient History | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tokens -- Greece -- Athens -- History, Numismatics -- Greece -- Athens -- History, Tesserae -- Greece -- Athens -- History, Panathenaia , Athens (Greece) -- History, Festivals -- Greece -- Athens -- History | ||||||
| Publisher: | Cercle d'Études Numismatiques | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Bruxelles | ||||||
| ISBN: | 9782930948096 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0009-0344 | ||||||
| Book Title: | Tokens, Value and Identity: Exploring monetiform objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages | ||||||
| Editor: | Crisa, Antonino | ||||||
| Official Date: | 1 March 2021 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 57-75 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Permission to archive published version given by publisher. | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
| Copyright Holders: | Cercle d’études numismatiques | ||||||
| Description: | Special Issue Tokens, Value and Identity : exploring monetiform objects in Antiquity and the Middle Ages |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 20 January 2021 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 January 2022 | ||||||
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