Material Culture and Cultural Identity: a Study of Greek and Roman Coins from Dora ISBN: 9781784910938 Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Archaeopress Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Limited; Download: 7 Days at a Time Subjects: History; Fine Arts;
The ancient harbor town of Dor/Dora in modern Israel has a history that spanned from the Bronze Age until the Late Roman Era. The story of its peoples can be assembled from a variety of historical and archaeological sources derived from the nearly thirty years of research at Tel Dor -- the archaeological site of the ancient city. Each primary source offers a certain kind of information with its own perspective. In the attempt to understand the city during its Graeco-Roman years -- a time when Dora reached its largest physical extent and gained enough importance to mint its own coins, numismatic sources provide key information. With their politically, socio-culturally and territorially specific iconography, Dora's coins indeed reveal that the city was self-aware of itself as a continuous culture, beginning with its Phoenician origins and continuing into its Roman present.