03 3rd Simone Assemani Symposium on Islamic Coins


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SOMMARIO

Bruno Callegher
Preface

Andrea Gariboldi
Aspetti di economia monetale nei documenti di Monte Mug. Con una appendice sui ritrovamenti di monete sasanidi, arabo-sasanidi e umayyadi in Tagikistan

Giulio Bernardi
Un tremisse di transizione con croce trasformata in palma stilizzata (sec. VII)

Frank R. Trombley
Some Greek and bilingual Arab-Byzantine bronze coins of Damascus and Hims-Emesa: some new examples of iconography and palaeography, with reference to some Byzantine issues of the late 6th and 7th centuries

Mohamed Ghodhane
Un fals umayyade rare au nom d’Atrabuls /Tripoli: étude du type, de conjoncture et d’atelier

Norman D. Nicol
Some Additions to A Corpus of Fatimid Coin

M. Alaa Aldin Alchomari
Trésor de Buseyra (Karkisiya)

Vladimir Belyaev, Vladimir Nastich, Sergey Sidorovich
The coinage of qara khitay: a new evidence (on the reign title of the Western Liao Emperor Yelü Yilie)

Vladimir N. Nastich
Early Islamic Copper Coinage of Transoxiana. A Generic Survey Focused on Newly Discovered Coin Types

Arianna D'Ottone
Ludovico Stanzani: freemason architect and coin connoisseur. Notes on his biography and collection

Mohammad Younis
"Malik Muluk Al-Umara"
New Laqab On Ai-Aba Dinar


Irakli Paghava
The First Arabic Coinage of Georgian Monarchs: Rediscovering the Specie of Davit IV the Builder (1089-1125), King of Kings and Sword of Messiah

Nikolaus Schindel
Umayyad Lead Coins

Nitzan Amitai- Preiss
Umayyad Vocabulary on Administrative Objects from Palestine

Maria Amalia De Luca
Sicilia Aghlabita: Nuove testimonianze numismatiche

Arianna D'Ottone
Umayyad and ‘Abbasid Glass Stamps from a Private Collection

Giancarlo Alteri
Giuseppe Simonio Assemani tra manoscritti e monete orientali


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The 3rd Assemani Symposium was dedicated to the transitional period of Islamic coinage, aiming at putting in context the Umayyad numismatic materials. The bulk of the papers published in these Proceedings is therefore focused on this theme, but the contributions also take into account Arab-Sasanian and Arab-Byzantine issues, as well as early Umayyad coins from various regions of the Dār al-Islām (Transoxiana, Sogdiana, Libya,…). Other papers throw light on different periods and objects of Numismatic interest (seals, glass stamps, history of collecting), as the vocation of this Symposium is to be the occasion of a wide-range scientific exchange on Arabic and Islamic Numismatics.


Bruno Callegher: His scientific interests can be defined with in two major research ambits, one relating to Roman coin finds in North-Eastern Italy, the other regarding Byzantine coinage. He has been Keeper at the ‘Museo Bottacin’ in Padua and since 2006 associate professor of Numismatics at the University of Trieste.

Arianna D’Ottone: Researcher of Arabic Language and Literature at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza – University of Rome. Her domains of research are Islamic Numismatics and Arabic manuscripts.

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  • Publication
    Sicilia Aghlabita: Nuove testimonianze numismatiche
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012)
    De Luca, Maria Amalia
    Questo saggio si propone di illustrare 22 sigilli di piombo di età aghlabita di provenienza siciliana1. Gli esemplari presi in esame, sebbene inediti, afferiscono ad una tipologia già delineata in due studi precedenti dei quali il primo, a firma di P. Balog, risale al 1979 e il secondo, pubblicato da chi scrive, risale al 2003. I sigilli pubblicati dall'autrice, a differenza di quelli illustrati dal Balog e dei nuovi che qui mi accingo ad illustrare, costituiscono il frutto di una campagna di scavo ufficiale condotta nell’area archeologica di Milena (Sicilia: provincia di Caltanissetta) e hanno dunque, rispetto a tutti gli altri, il pregio di provenire da un sito studiato a fondo dagli archeologi, il che – come il lettore si renderà conto presto – avrà importanti refluenze sulla discussione intorno all’uso di questi manufatti.
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    Umayyad Vocabulary on Administrative Objects from Palestine
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012)
    Amitai, Nitzan
    Both history sources as well as archaeological objects tell us about the past of a place. The writing of the Islamic history started already during the third quarter of the seventh century by Syrian writers who wrote about the Islamic conquests. But those books have been lost, and they are only mentioned in treaties written in the 9th and 10th centuries (ELAD 2003). Historical sources writing about Umayyad Palestine are non-existing except for one Samaritan source that was written in Arabic in 1355 C.E. This source only seldom writes about other communities other then the Samaritans.
      1059  1511
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    Umayyad Lead Coins
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012)
    Schindel, Nikolaus
    The present paper tries to provide a rough overview over lead coins roughly dating to the Umayyad period (ca. 700-750 AD). Lead coins can be either issued alongside copper coins like in Baalbek or Jurjan as part of the regular petty coinage, they can be a local currency like in the Persian Gulf region, or they can have been produced in unofficial local workshops as a remedy against a need for petty cash. Some examples for these three categories are presented and discussed.
      1239  3792
  • Publication
    The first Arabic coinage of Georgian monarchs: rediscovering the Specie of Davit IV the Builder (1089-1125), King of Kings and Sword of Messiah
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012)
    Paghava, Irakli
    We discovered, presented and reviewed seven completely new specimens of the coin type issued by a certain Davit, King of Kings and Sword of Messiah, and represented by a unique piece before. The study of this coinage is far from being complete due to the poor state of preservation of the extant specimens, particularly of their margins (future discoveries of the bigger pieces may shed more light upon this issue). However, the reexamination and reconsideration of the central legends led to their alternative reconstruction, providing valuable data and indicating that Davit V, son of Dimitri (I) minted no coinage (or that none survived), and the coin type previously attributed to this Georgian King was in effect issued by Davit IV the Builder, son of Giorgi (II); most probably, despite some discrepancies, it constituted the currency described, albeit somewhat imprecisely, by Al-F!riq". The incessant, as it was thought earlier, 12th-13th c. emissions of the Georgian monarchs now are interrupted at the short reign of Davit V; however, on the other hand, the numismatic legacy of Davit IV reign was enriched by a very noteworthy coin type, providing very valuable information for the research of the numismatic, and, more generally, political, economical and cultural history of Georgia and the whole region in that epoch.
      1131  5146
  • Publication
    "Malik Muluk Al-Umara" New Laqab On Ai-Aba Dinar
    (EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2012)
    Younis, Mohammad
    In the middle of the 6th/12th century the Saljuq Empire slowly dissolved in several principalities, some of them still acknowledged the Saljuq sultan as overlord. Many of you know the Artuqids and Zangids in the Saljuq West. Other principalities emerged in the eastern part of the empire, where the Sultan Sanjar was nominally the supreme overlord. The topic of this study is: how does the title (laqab) of Ai-Aba Malik Muluk al-Umara"’ which was on his gold dinars in Nishapur in 560 AH fits into his political position of this time.
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