Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies
The Flow of Money, Goods and Services
28–31 October 2014Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Section 3: Ancient irAniAn economieS
Michael Alram | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaMoney and coinage in the Achaemenid empire: production and distribution
Robert Rollinger | University of innsbruck — University of HelsinkiBetween deportation and recruitment: craftsmen and specialists from the West in Ancient Near Eastern empires (from Neo-Assyrian times until Alexander III)
Fri 31 Octoberclubroom
Section 3: Ancient irAniAn economieS (continued)
Udo Hartmann | University of JenaWege durch Parthien – Straßen, Handelsrouten und Kommunikation im Arsakidenreich
Fabrizio Sinisi | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaImperial and local: the organisation of coin production in the Parthian empire
coffee break
Nikolaus Schindel | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaSasanian mints – where and why?
Final Discussion
16:30–17:15
17:15–18:00
9:30–10:15
10:15–11:00
11:00–11:30
11:30–12:15
12:15–13:00
Institute for the Study of Ancient CultureDivision Documenta Antiqua
Organisation: Bernhard Woytek, Head of the Division Documenta Antiqua, institute for the Study of Ancient culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Website: www.oeaw.ac.at/docant2014
Venue: Austrian Academy of Sciences clubroom: Dr. ignaz Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna theatersaal: Herbert Hunger Haus, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, 1010 Vienna
WelcomeMichael Alram | Vice President of the Austrian Academy of SciencesAndreas pülz | Director of the institute for the Study of Ancient cultureBernhard Woytek | Head of the Division Documenta Antiqua
Evening lectureRoger S. Bagnall | institute for the Study of the Ancient World, new York UniversityUsing papyrus documents for the study of an ancient economy: methods and materials from an Egyptian oasis
Buffet in the courtyard of the Herbert Hunger Haus
Wed 29 Octoberclubroom
Introduction Bernhard Woytek | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
Section 1: Greek economieS
Kaja Harter-Uibopuu | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaDecrees and treaties – the legal framework for the successful flow of goods and money
Vincent gabrielsen | University of copenhagen“Mankind’s most secure and durable institution”: state, credit, trade and capital accumulation in the classical-early Hellenistic Aegean
coffee break
gerhard Thür | Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna Michele Faraguna | University of triesteSilver from Laureion: mining and minting
Lunch break
Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert | American numismatic Society, new YorkRuling an empire by controlling a coin standard?
Alain Bresson | University of chicagoMoney, trade and prices in the Hellenistic economy
tea break
18:00
9:30–9:45
9:45–10:30
10:30–11:15
11:15–11:45
11:45–12:30
12:30–14:00
14:00–14:45
14:45–15:30
15:30–16:00
Section 2: tHe romAn economY
Simon Keay | University of SouthamptonThe role of Portus in commercial flows between Rome and Mediterranean ports
Annalisa Marzano | University of readingLarge-scale fishing and the Roman production and trade in salted fish: some organizational aspects
Speakers‘ dinner (by invitation only)
Thu 30 Octoberclubroom
Section 2: tHe romAn economY (continued)
Claude Domergue | University of toulouse ii – Le mirailHow the Western Mediterranean was supplied with metals towards the end of the Republic and under the early Empire: fluxes, routes and organization
Kevin Butcher | University of Warwick Bernhard Woytek | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaCoin production and coin distribution in the Roman empire in the first and early second centuries AD: a general framework and some case studies
coffee break
Suzanne Frey-Kupper | University of Warwick Clive Stannard | University of LeicesterEvidence for the importation and monetary use of blocks of foreign and obsolete coin in the ancient world
Thomas Corsten | Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of ViennaNegotiatores und lokale Märkte in Kleinasien
Lunch break
Thomas Kruse | Austrian Academy of Sciences, ViennaThe transport of goods through the Eastern Desert of Egypt
Ben Russell | University of edinburghQuarry inscriptions, accounting systems, and the Roman stone trade
