Publications
Recent Publications
- Coinage in Roman Syria. Northern Syria, 64 BC – AD 253, London, Royal Numismatic Society Special Publication 34, 2004.
- Roman Syria and the Near East, London, British Museum Press, and Los Angeles, Getty Museum Press, 2003.
- Small Change in Ancient Beirut. The Coin Finds from BEY 006 and BEY 045: Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine Periods. Archaeology of the Beirut Souks, AUB and ACRE Excavations in Beirut, 1994-1996, 1 Berytus XLV-XLVI (2001-2002), Beirut, American University of Beirut, 2003.
- ‘Coins and Hoards’, in W. Aylward (ed.), Excavations at Zeugma Conducted by Oxford Archaeology, Volume III, Los Altos: Packard Humanities Institute, 2013: 1-92.
- 'The beginning of the end? The denarius in the second century', Numismatic Chronicle 172 (2012): 63-83.
- 'Numerical letters on Syrian coins: officina or sequence marks?', Revue Belge de Numismatique 158 (2012): 123-144.
- 'The silver coinage of Roman Arabia', in D.M. Jacobson, N. Kokkinos (eds.), Judaea and Rome in Coins, 65 BCE - 135 CE, London 2012: 203-213.
- 'Syria in the Roman Period, 64 BC - AD 260', in W.E. Metcalf (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage, Oxford / New York 2012: 468-484.
- 'Miscellaneous Provincials', Numismatic Chronicle 171 (2011): 75-79.
- 'The denarius in the first century' (with M. Ponting), in N. Holmes (ed.), Proceedings of the XIV International Numismatic Congress, Glasgow 2009, Glasgow, 2011: 557-568.
- 'Ambrosia in Damascus?' Numismatic Chronicle 2010: 85-91.
- Review of Bosra, aux portes de l’Arabie, by Dentzer-Feydy, J., Vallerin, M., Fournet, T., Mukdad, R. and Mukdad, A. JRA - The Supplementary Series, Vol.23 . pp. 780-781. ISSN 1063-4304.
- Reviews of D. Draganov, The Coinage of Deultum, Sofia, 2007, and D. Draganov, Sylloge NummorumGraecorum, Bulgaria, Ruse, Bobokov Bros. Collection, Thrace and Moesia Inferior, vol 1. Deultum, Ruse, 2005, in Schweizer Muenzblatter 240 (2010): 126-8.
- 'The Complete Bostra', Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010): 780-781.
- 'Contesting Sacred Space in Lebanese Temples', in E.S. Gruen (ed.), Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean, Los Angeles, 2010: 452-463.
- Review of L.J. Hall, Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity, London, 2004, in Near Eastern Archaeology 73.2-3 (2010): 205-7.
- Review of D L Kennedy, Gerasa and the Decapolis, London 2007, in The Classical Review 60.1 (2010): 219-220.
- 'Acolytes and Aspergilla: On Five Coin Types of Heliopolis', Topoi 16 (2009): 169-187.
- 'The Euphrates Frontier and the Civic Era of Zeugma', in O. Tekin (ed.), Ancient History, Numismatics and Epigraphy in the Mediterranean World. Studies in Memory of Clemens E. Bosch and Sabahat Atlan and in honour of Nezahat Baydur, Istanbul, 2009, 81-83.
- 'The Silver Coinage of Roman Syria under the Julio-Claudian Emperors' (with M. J. Ponting), Levant 41.1 (2009), 59-78.
- 'The denarii of Otho: a stylistic and compositional study' (with M. J. Ponting and J. Muona), Rivista Italiana di Numismatica 110 (2009), 297-316.
- 'Phasing of coin finds: The example of ancient Beirut', in M. Asolati, G. Gorini (eds), I ritrovamenti monetali e i processi inflativi nel mondo antico e medievale. Atti del IV Congresso Internazionale di Numismatica e di Storia Monetaria, Padova, 12-13 ottobre 2007 (Padova 2008), 63-67.
- Review of The Middle East under Rome, by Sartre, M. International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Vol.15 (No.2). pp. 309-315. ISSN 1073-0508
- 'Jerusalem: the coins', (with R. Reece, H. Brown, M. Metcalf) in K. Prag (ed.), Excavations by K. M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961-1967, Volume V: Discoveries in Hellenistic to Ottoman Jerusalem, Oxford (2008) 411-31.
- 'A Palmyrene curiosity', Berytus 50 (2007), 83-84.
- 'Two Syrian deities', Syria 84 (2007) 281-90.
- ‘Information, Legitimation, or Self-Legitimation? Popular and Elite Designs on the Coin Types of Syria’, in C. Howgego, V. Heuchert, A. Burnett (eds), Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces, Oxford University Press, 2005, 143-156.
- ‘The Roman Denarius under the Julio-Claudian Emperors: Mints, Metallurgy and Technology’ (with M. J. Ponting), Oxford Journal of Archaeology 24(2) (2005), 163-197.
- ‘Die sharing in Asia Minor: A Phantom Link’, Schweizer Muenzblatter 219 (2005), 67-68.
- ‘The Egyptian Billon Tetradrachm under the Julio-Claudian Emperors—Fiduciary or Intrinsic?’ (with M. J. Ponting), Schweizerische Numismatische Rundschau 84 (2005), 93-124.
- ‘Numismatics (Minting and Monetary Systems/Coinage) in the Levant’, in S. Richard (ed.), Near Eastern Archaeology: A Reader, Winona Lake, Eisenbraums, 2003, pp. 210-217.
- ‘Circulation of Bronze Coinage in the Orontes Valley in the Late Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods’, in C. Augé, F. Duyrat (edd.), Les monnayages syriens – Quel apport pour l’histoire du Proche-Orient hellénistique et romain?, Actes de la table ronde de Damas, 10-12 novembre 1999, Beirut, 2002, 145-152.
- Roman provincial coins : an introduction to the 'Greek Imperials'. London: Seaby. ISBN 1852640103.
Forthcoming Publications (in press)
- Griechische Münzen in Winterthur, Band III: Pamphylien – Mauretanien (with M. Spoerri Butcher, H. Gilter et al.), Winterthur.