International Congress
Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies
The Flow of Money, Goods and Services
28–31 October 2014Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Section 3: Ancient irAniAn economieS
Michael Alram | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaMoney and
coinage in the Achaemenid empire: production and distribution
Robert Rollinger | University of innsbruck — University of
HelsinkiBetween deportation and recruitment: craftsmen and
specialists from the West in Ancient Near Eastern empires (from
Neo-Assyrian times until Alexander III)
Presentation of monographs on Ancient iranian numismatics
recently published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,
followed by a reception
Fri 31 Octoberclubroom
Section 3: Ancient irAniAn economieS (continued)
Udo Hartmann | University of JenaWege durch Parthien – Straßen,
Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenreich
Fabrizio Sinisi | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaImperial
and local: the organization of coin production in the Parthian
empire
coffee break
Nikolaus Schindel | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaSasanian
mints – where and why?
Final discussion
16:30–17:15
17:15–18:00
18:30
9:30–10:15
10:15–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:15
12:15–13:00
Institute for the Study of Ancient CultureDivision Documenta
Antiqua
Organisation: Bernhard Woytek, Head of the Division Documenta
Antiqua, institute for the Study of Ancient culture, Austrian
Academy of Sciences
Website: www.oeaw.ac.at/docant2014
Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences clubroom: Dr. ignaz
Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna theatersaal: Herbert Hunger Haus,
Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna
Contact: [email protected]
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WelcomeMichael Alram | Vice President of the Austrian Academy of
SciencesAndreas pülz | Director of the institute for the Study of
Ancient cultureBernhard Woytek | Head of the Division Documenta
Antiqua
Evening lectureRoger S. Bagnall | institute for the Study of the
Ancient World, new York UniversityUsing papyrus documents for the
study of an ancient economy: methods and materials from an Egyptian
oasis
Buffet in the courtyard of the Herbert Hunger Haus
Wed 29 Octoberclubroom
Introduction Bernhard Woytek | Austrian Academy of Sciences,
Vienna
Section 1: Greek economieS
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu | Austrian Academy of Sciences,
ViennaDecrees and treaties – the legal framework for the successful
flow of goods and money
Vincent gabrielsen | University of copenhagen“Mankind’s most
secure and durable institution”: state, credit, trade and capital
accumulation in the classical-early Hellenistic Aegean
coffee break
gerhard Thür | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Michele
Faraguna | University of triesteSilver from Laureion: mining and
minting
Lunch break
Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert | BerlinThe flow of money within the
Greek world
Alain Bresson | University of chicagoCoins and Trade in
Hellenistic Asia Minor: the Pamphylian hub
tea break
18:00
9:30–9:45
9:45–10:30
10:30–11:15
11:15–11:45
11:45–12:30
12:30–14:00
14:00–14:45
14:45–15:30
15:30–16:00
Section 2: tHe romAn economY
Simon Keay | University of SouthamptonThe role of Portus in
commercial flows between Rome and Mediterranean ports
Annalisa Marzano | University of readingLarge-scale fishing and
the Roman production and trade in salted fish: some organizational
aspects
Speakers‘ dinner (by invitation only)
Thu 30 Octoberclubroom
Section 2: tHe romAn economY (continued)
Claude Domergue | University of toulouse ii – Le
mirailL’approvisionnement en métaux de l’Occident méditerranéen à
la fin de la République et sous le Haut-Empire. Flux, routes,
organisation.
Kevin Butcher | University of Warwick Bernhard Woytek | Austrian
Academy of Sciences, ViennaCoin production and coin distribution in
the Roman empire in the first and early second centuries AD: a
general framework and some case studies
coffee break
Suzanne Frey-Kupper | University of Warwick Clive Stannard |
University of LeicesterEvidence for the importation and monetary
use of blocks of foreign and obsolete coin in the ancient world
Thomas Corsten | Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of
ViennaNegotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien
Lunch break
Thomas Kruse | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaThe transport
of goods through the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Ben Russell | University of edinburghQuarry inscriptions,
accounting systems, and the Roman stone trade
tea break
16:00–16:45
16:45–17:30
19:30
9:30–10:15
10:15–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:15
12:15–13:00
13:00–14:30
14:30–15:15
15:15–16:00
16:00–16:30
