Wealth and Warfare: The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria

by Frederique Duyrat

Wealth and Warfare assembles for the first time the evidence for coin finds in the region of ancient Syria from the 5th to the 1st century BCE. A full catalogue of all known coin hoards and published excavation finds serves as the basis for an explanation of monetary behavior in an area extending over parts of modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Turkey. In seven chapters of analysis, Duyrat establishes the limits of what we...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897223462
• ISBN13: 9780897223461
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: American Numismatic Society
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 6.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.6" x 11.1"