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Professor Osmund BOPEARACHCHI delivers the 2008 Gale Lecture in Ancient Numismatics
Professor Osmund BOPEARACHCHI will deliver the 2008 Gale lecture at 7pm Monday 28th April 2008. His lecture is entitled: “Recent findings of coins in Central Asia and North-West India: from Alexander the Great to Kanishka I.”
Professor Osmund BOPEARACHCHI is the Director of Research, French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris C.N.R.S., E.N.S.-C.N.R.S., UMR 8546, Archéologies d’Orient et d’Occident; Professor (habilité), Member of the Ecole Doctorale 124, University Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV); Director, Hellénisme et civilisations orientales, C.N.R.S. UMR 8546, Archéologies d’Orient et d’Occident, École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
Seminar Room of the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Building X5B (3rd floor) Macquarie University.
To find us go to : http://www.mac.mq.edu.au/visit.htm
Professor Bopearachchi is one of the most distinguished numismatist/archaeologists working today in the field of the Greek and native dynasties of Bactria and northern India. This will be a remarkable opportunity to hear about new research in this highly volatile region. Amongst his publications are Monnaies gréco-bactriennes et indo-grecques, Catalogue raisonné, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, 1991, winner of the "Gustave Mendel Award" from the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres for the best Corpus of the year and the"Bhagawanlal Indrajii Silver Medal" from the Indian Coin Society, for the best Indian Numismatic publication of the year.
2008 Junior Fellows at ACANS
Ms Tania Wiese and Mr Gil Davis, both post graduate students in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University, have been appointed junior fellows. Ms Wiese is studying the history of the Sasanian empire and its relations with the Romans. Mr Davis is studying Athenian history during the archaic and classical periods and will be undertaking research into the earliest coinage of Athens while a fellow at ACANS.
Alexander and the Hellenisitic Kingdoms. The Westmoreland Collection Exhibition and Catalgoue.
The exhibition of this remarkable collection of Hellenistic coins continues at the Museum of Ancient Cultures, Building X5B, Macquarie University ( http://www.mac.mq.edu.au/visit.htm), until the end of 2008. The catalgoue may be purchased from the Museum or from Oxbow Books:
http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/83949
Alexander and the Hellenistic Kingdoms: The Westmoreland Collection
by K A Sheedy, with essays by K A Sheedy, A B Bosworth, E J Baynham and J Melville Jones
This lavishly-produced catalogue presents one of the finest colelctions of Hellenistic coins in Australia. The enlarged pictures are designed to allow close inspection of detail, for the serious collector, but is also suitable for those who have a more general interest in all things 'Alexander'. 172p, col photos of all 87 coins (Ancient Coins in Australian Collections 1, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies 2007)
Testimonia Nummaria II published!
TESTIMONIA NUMMARIA
Greek and Latin Texts concerning Ancient Greek Coinage.
Volume II: Addenda and Commentary
By John R. Melville Jones.
With an Index compiled by Kate da Costa.
Spink, 2007. Octavo, pp. vi, 362 + 52 page Index
Bound in cloth, gilt.
This volume provides a commentary on each of the Greek and Latin texts (more than 900) relating to Ancient Greek coinage which were published in Volume I. In addition, an opening chapter introduces a further 49 texts, each of which is similarly equipped with a commentary. This volume completes a major and permanent work of reference which will be an essential piece of equipment, not only for numismatists but also for ancient historians who need to have information and guidance in this specialised area of study.
£40.00 (for purchase see http://www.spink.com/retail/fullstockitem.asp?salelot=RWW04++21836+&refno=11473186&saletype=R)