DOI issue:
Recenzje / Reviews
DOI article:Bursche, Aleksander: [Rezension von: Teresa Giove, Pompei, rinvenimenti monetali nella 'Regio I]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.31073#0233
Tom [X
Kraków 2014
TERESA GIOVE
Pozrzpez. Rzzmezzzzzzezgz z^zozzgrrz/z zze/Zrz 'Regzo 7, "Studi e Materia)i" 16,
Istituto Itatiano di Numismatica, Roma 2013, 395 pages, numerous tables
and graphics, ISBN 978-8-8859-1455-1
The coins from the excavations conducted in the area devastated by the erup-
tion of Vesuvius in the year AD 79 provide a wealth of information on the circula-
tion and hoarding of money, the methods and places of storage as wel) as the ratę
of inflation processes. Examined within a broader archaeologica) context, they a)so
enable multi-faceted research in the helds of both economic and socia) history con-
ceming, e.g., the scalę of afduence or poverty of the contemporary communities,
the structure of the functioning and the degree of the monetization of the market.
It is indeed one of the very few, and at the same time most spectacular, examples
of the opportunity to grasp a "living culture" in its entirety thanks to the use of ar-
chaeological methods. Unfortunately, the results of over 150 years of morę regular
exploration have been published in fragments to datę, while the coins obtained
during that period have not been featured in fnll detail until now and we know
them mostly from various annual repoils, exhibition catalogues, and some morę
synthetic-oriented studies, including especially the articles by L. Breglia (1950)
and E. Pozzi-Paolini (1975).
For this reason, it is worth taking a closer look at the commendable effort un-
dertaken by the International Centre for Numismatic Studies in Naples in collabo-
ration with the Archaeological Heritage Supervisory Authority in Naples and Pom-
peii and the Numismatics Department of the University of Naples and Salerno, i.e.,
their project concerning a study of the circulation of coins in the Vesuvius area. As
part of this project, the series S7zz<7z g Ma^rzfz/z of the Italian Numismatic Institute
(IIN) has continued to publish, sińce 2005, the finds of the coins unearthed in the
individual regzozzeó of Pompeii, presenting the overall archaeological and numis-
matic documentation in a possibly most uniform and complete form. The present
study dedicated to Regio I is the third publication of the series. The previous one,
published in 2008 by R. Cantilena, discussed Regio VI, whereas three years be-
fore M. Talierico Mensitieri published a very similar study of the materiał from
Regio IX. Edited by the iatter author, the IIN issued a publication of very inter-
esting proceedings in 2007, from the conference entitled Prasgzzzrz g czrco/rzzzozze
Je/G zz?oz76^ z7? rzrerz Teóz.zvz(zz?<a, which was held in Naples in 2003. Publications
concerning Regiones 111, IV, VII, and V1M are being prepared. Apart from some
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Kraków 2014
TERESA GIOVE
Pozrzpez. Rzzmezzzzzzezgz z^zozzgrrz/z zze/Zrz 'Regzo 7, "Studi e Materia)i" 16,
Istituto Itatiano di Numismatica, Roma 2013, 395 pages, numerous tables
and graphics, ISBN 978-8-8859-1455-1
The coins from the excavations conducted in the area devastated by the erup-
tion of Vesuvius in the year AD 79 provide a wealth of information on the circula-
tion and hoarding of money, the methods and places of storage as wel) as the ratę
of inflation processes. Examined within a broader archaeologica) context, they a)so
enable multi-faceted research in the helds of both economic and socia) history con-
ceming, e.g., the scalę of afduence or poverty of the contemporary communities,
the structure of the functioning and the degree of the monetization of the market.
It is indeed one of the very few, and at the same time most spectacular, examples
of the opportunity to grasp a "living culture" in its entirety thanks to the use of ar-
chaeological methods. Unfortunately, the results of over 150 years of morę regular
exploration have been published in fragments to datę, while the coins obtained
during that period have not been featured in fnll detail until now and we know
them mostly from various annual repoils, exhibition catalogues, and some morę
synthetic-oriented studies, including especially the articles by L. Breglia (1950)
and E. Pozzi-Paolini (1975).
For this reason, it is worth taking a closer look at the commendable effort un-
dertaken by the International Centre for Numismatic Studies in Naples in collabo-
ration with the Archaeological Heritage Supervisory Authority in Naples and Pom-
peii and the Numismatics Department of the University of Naples and Salerno, i.e.,
their project concerning a study of the circulation of coins in the Vesuvius area. As
part of this project, the series S7zz<7z g Ma^rzfz/z of the Italian Numismatic Institute
(IIN) has continued to publish, sińce 2005, the finds of the coins unearthed in the
individual regzozzeó of Pompeii, presenting the overall archaeological and numis-
matic documentation in a possibly most uniform and complete form. The present
study dedicated to Regio I is the third publication of the series. The previous one,
published in 2008 by R. Cantilena, discussed Regio VI, whereas three years be-
fore M. Talierico Mensitieri published a very similar study of the materiał from
Regio IX. Edited by the iatter author, the IIN issued a publication of very inter-
esting proceedings in 2007, from the conference entitled Prasgzzzrz g czrco/rzzzozze
Je/G zz?oz76^ z7? rzrerz Teóz.zvz(zz?<a, which was held in Naples in 2003. Publications
concerning Regiones 111, IV, VII, and V1M are being prepared. Apart from some
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