Provincial Coinage of Cyprus under Augustus

The Land of Fertility I

The Land of Fertility I South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest Edited by

Małgorzata Kajzer, Łukasz Miszk and Maciej Wacławik

The Land of Fertility I: South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest Edited by Małgorzata Kajzer, Łukasz Miszk and Maciej Wacławik This book first published 2016 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2016 by Małgorzata Kajzer, Łukasz Miszk, Maciej Wacławik and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-8713-7 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8713-7

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations .................................................................................... vii Preface ........................................................................................................ ix Acknowledgements .................................................................................... xi Part I: At the Dawn of Civilisation Chapter One ................................................................................................. 3 The Pottery from the Early Dynastic Cemetery at Tell el-Murra: Seasons 2011–2014 Magdalena Kazimierczak Chapter Two .............................................................................................. 21 Results of Recent Field Research at Gebelein Wojciech Ejsmond, Julia Chyla and Piotr Witkowski Part II: In the Power of Great Empires Chapter Three ............................................................................................ 33 The Role of the Pharaoh as the Feeder of His People Filip Taterka Chapter Four .............................................................................................. 51 Greeks Mercenaries and Pirates of the Archaic Period (8th–6th centuries BC) in the Lands of the Fertile Crescent: A Study of Interregional Contacts Wawrzyniec Miścicki Chapter Five .............................................................................................. 67 The Second Syrian War in the Light of Numismatic Evidence Alicja Jurkiewicz Chapter Six ................................................................................................ 75 The Coinage of Obodas III (30–9 BC) Barbara Zając

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Chapter Seven............................................................................................ 83 Provincial Coinage of Cyprus under Augustus Szymon Jellonek Part III: Under the Wings of an Eagle Chapter Eight ............................................................................................. 93 A Historian’s Perspective on Egyptian Thebes in Book I of Diodorus Siculus’ Bibliotheka Historica Victoria Rotar Chapter Nine............................................................................................ 105 Changes in the Eastern Mediterranean contacts during the Hellenistic and Roman Periods based on oil lamps’ finds from Cyprus – preliminary remarks Małgorzata Kajzer Chapter Ten ............................................................................................. 111 Loomweights from the East Mediterranean: Looking for Meaning of Iconography Łukasz Miszk Chapter Eleven ........................................................................................ 117 Looking for a lost weight Maciej Wacławik General Bibliography .............................................................................. 123 List of Contributors ................................................................................. 141