RACOM Rome Conference Programme

Day One - Monday 17th April
10.00	Welcome & Opening Remarks
10.05 - 10.45	Matthew Ponting The archeometallurgy of silver
10.45 - 11.25	Jonathan Wood Roman Republican Coinage: chemical signatures on a bigger picture
11.25 - 11.55	COFFEE
11.55 - 12.35	Charles Parisot-Sillon Predators turned rentiers. Roman conquest and silver supply strategies in the Western Mediterranean during the 2nd century BCE
12.35 - 13.15	Liv Yarrow & Alice Sharpless Economic Fears and Realities in the 80s BCE
13.15 - 14.15	LUNCH
14.15 - 14.55	Bernhard Woytek Arma et nummi – twenty years on. Some remarks on new metallurgical data for the silver coinage of the 40s BC
14.55 - 15.35	Arnaud Suspène & Maryse Blet-Lemarquand Roman Silver Coinage of the 30s BC : new insights from MP-AES and LA-ICP-MS analyses
15.35 - 16.05	COFFEE
16.05 - 16.45	Eleni Papaefythmiou The presence and circulation of Roman Republican denarii in the Balkans and mainland Greece during the 1st c. BC
17.00 - 18.00	DRINKS RECEPTION

Day Two - Tuesday 18th April
09.00 - 09.20	Adrian Hillier Probing beneath the surface without a scratch: A negative muon investigation of late Hellenistic and early Roman imperial coins
09.20 - 10.00	Sophia Kremyidi The contribution of recent metal analysis to monetary policies of the late Antigonids and the Romans
10.00 - 10.40	Catherine Grandjean & Maryse Blet-Lemarquand The last Peloponnesian silver coins
10.40 - 11.10	COFFEE
11.10 - 11.50	Lucia Carbone Was the cistophorus a 'Roman' coinage? Continuities and discontinuities in the cistophoric production of the second and first century BC
11.50 - 12.30	Andrew Meadows Later Hellenistic silver coinages of western and southern Asia Minor
12.30 - 13.30	LUNCH
13.30 - 14.10	François de Callataÿ The late eastern Hellenistic kingdoms: Pontus, Bithynia, Cappadocia and Parthia
14.10 - 14.50	Frédérique Duyrat North and South. Two regional cultures of silver minting in the Levant
14.50 - 15.20	COFFEE
15.20 - 16.00	Julien Olivier & Thomas Faucher From Owls to Eagles. The metallic stocks of Egyptian coins (5th century BC-1st century AD)
16.00 - 16.40	Andrew Burnett Closing Remarks