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Tokens and communities in the Roman provinces: an exploration of Egypt, Gaul and Britain
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Wilding, Denise (2020) Tokens and communities in the Roman provinces: an exploration of Egypt, Gaul and Britain. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Tokens are a form of portable material culture that have been much neglected in recent scholarship of the Roman period (27 BC- AD 476). This thesis explores the presence and function of tokens in the Roman provinces of Egypt, Gaul and Britain in order to establish their contribution to daily life. It collates a corpus of tokens from these provinces for the first time, using published sources and museum collections. Analysis of findspots and immediate archaeological contexts, where available, are used to establish how and where tokens were used, and to identify areas where their use is limited. This, in conjunction with an assessment of token types demonstrates that tokens are specific to a locality, with functions pertaining to groups on a local scale. The imagery and inscriptions of tokens are also placed within their local context, whilst taking into account how they are linked into broader networks within the Roman empire and classical material culture.
| Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CJ Numismatics D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Tokens, Tokens -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Tokens -- Great Britain -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Tokens -- Egypt -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Tokens -- Gaul -- History -- Roman period, 55 B.C.-449 A.D., Roman provinces | ||||
| Official Date: | July 2020 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Classics and Ancient History | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Rowan, Clare, 1982- ; Butcher, Kevin | ||||
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| Extent: | 358 leaves : illustrations | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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