News from the CHANGE project
Dr Marcus Chin and Dr Leah Lazar, the two Research Associates working on the CHANGE project, have added two new open access datasets, the Inscriptions Database and a Site Finds Database, to the Typology of Coinages of Asia Minor released by Andrew Meadows in 2023.
The project team will soon be engaging with researchers to ask what can be done with these new, large datasets. Broad questions that they have mind regard the growth and changing nature of coinage and corresponding monetary behaviour. They hope to look at this in terms of the size of coinages over time, and their circulation. They are also planning to bring that evidence alongside the epigraphic record of monetary behaviour to see whether patterns emerge over time, or across geographical space. Together, these new tools will be used to examine different levels of activity, ranging from the individual within a polis to the large actors in imperial spaces, in order to address broader questions of political and regional organisation.
1. The CHANGE Project Site Finds Database provides basic data on published coins found in archaeological excavations in the region of Anatolia and neighbouring islands, with production dates between c. 700 and 30 BC. This tool is intended to support research into monetary production and circulation in Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic Anatolia.
2. The CHANGE Project Inscriptions Database provides a searchable inventory of epigraphic testimony for monetary use and activity in the Anatolian peninsula and its offshore islands from the 7th to 1st centuries BCE, spanning the origins of coinage to the onset of the Roman imperial period. It is a compilation of 11,000 inscriptions from this region and period.
3. The CHANGE Project Typology for the Coinages of Asia Minor is a high-level typology of the coinage of the region created on the principles of Linked Open Data and according to the standards of the nomisma.org project. It provides a typological overview of all ancient coinages from the regions of Asia Minor. This portal will eventually provide access to relevant issues from the Hellenistic Royal Coinages Portal created by the ANS, of Mysia and Troas created by the Corpus Nummorum project of the SMK Berlin and BBAW, and to an extended and elaborated version of the typology for the remainder of Asia Minor provided by the IRIS project of the BnF and CSAD at Oxford University.
