TY - GEN
T1 - 87. Melita e Gaulos: due identità territoriali a confronto attraverso il documento monetale
AU - Perassi, Claudia
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In the years following the Roman conquest in 218 BC, Melita and Gaulos started to
produce their own bronze coinage. The largest island in the Maltese archipelago struck
11 issues. The last one was minted at the end of the Republican age, when Gaulos also
minted its only issue. Their coinage is very different in terms of types and languages.
Melita uses a multiplicity of types and all of them are religious images (heads of divinities,
gods, objects or animals related to them). The legends are written in Punic, Greek
or Latin. On the contrary, the coins from Gaulos have military types: a helmeted female
head on the obverse and a warrior on the reverse. The inscriptions are always in Greek.
The aim of this paper is to study how the identity of the two islands is expressed by
their coins, comparing their types and legends with literary sources, archaeological and
epigraphical evidence and coins minted in Roman times by towns in Sicily.
AB - In the years following the Roman conquest in 218 BC, Melita and Gaulos started to
produce their own bronze coinage. The largest island in the Maltese archipelago struck
11 issues. The last one was minted at the end of the Republican age, when Gaulos also
minted its only issue. Their coinage is very different in terms of types and languages.
Melita uses a multiplicity of types and all of them are religious images (heads of divinities,
gods, objects or animals related to them). The legends are written in Punic, Greek
or Latin. On the contrary, the coins from Gaulos have military types: a helmeted female
head on the obverse and a warrior on the reverse. The inscriptions are always in Greek.
The aim of this paper is to study how the identity of the two islands is expressed by
their coins, comparing their types and legends with literary sources, archaeological and
epigraphical evidence and coins minted in Roman times by towns in Sicily.
KW - Iconografia monetale
KW - Monetazione età romana repubblicana
KW - Zecche di Melita e Gaulos
KW - Iconografia monetale
KW - Monetazione età romana repubblicana
KW - Zecche di Melita e Gaulos
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/98207
M3 - Contributo a convegno
SN - 978-88-8296-464-1
T3 - SEMATA E SIGNA
SP - 197
EP - 212
BT - Moneta e identità territoriale: dalla polis antica alla civitas medievale
T2 - Incontro internazionale di studio del Lexicon Iconographicum Numismatica
Y2 - 12 September 2013 through 13 September 2013
ER -