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)

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 organisation 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

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: bernhard.woytek@oeaw.ac.at

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Tue 28 Octobertheatersaal

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 | American numismatic Society, new YorkRuling an empire by controlling a coin standard?

Alain Bresson | University of chicagoMoney, trade and prices in the Hellenistic economy

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

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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 mirailHow the Western Mediterranean was supplied with metals towards the end of the Republic and under the early Empire: fluxes, routes and organization

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

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9:30–10:15

10:15–11:00

11:00–11:30

11:30–12:15

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