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Coins and Tokens from Ancient Ceylon

Walburg, Reinhold:
Coins and Tokens from Ancient Ceylon : Ancient Ruhuna; Sri Lanka-German Archaeological Project in the Southern Province / Reinhold Walburg. - Vol. 2. - Wiesbaden : Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008. - 412 S. : Ill., Kt. - (Forschungen zur Archäologie außereuropäischer Kulturen ; Bd. 5)
ISBN 978-3-89500-645-6
EUR 79,00
--Angekündigt für Oktober 2008--

(Bildquelle: Ministry of Education, Śrī Laṅkā)
Beschreibung
Coins are a principal source to elucidate both the pattern of trade between Sri Lanka and the western world in late antiquity and the island’s monetary and economic history. The study first and foremost critically compiles and annotates the finds of Late Roman, ancient Indian and local coins discovered in Sri Lanka. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Foreword. 9
Introduction. 10
I. BASIS AND BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE. 13
1. The history of the national coin collections. 14
2. Coins from archaeological excavations. 26
II. MATERIAL EVIDENCE. 41
3. The coins, coin-like objects, and the find containers. 42
III. ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF COIN FINDS. 115
4. Catalogue of ancient coins from Śrī Laṅkā. 116
5. Finds of late antique Western coins in India. 269
6. Finds of mediaeval Sinhalese coins in Śrī Laṅkā. 279
7. Finds of Chinese coins in Śrī Laṅkā. 284
IV. ANALYSIS
Preliminary remarks on chapters 8 to 10. 287
8. Coin finds: the dominance of the south. 288
9. Some considerations on the monetary and economic history of Śrī Laṅkā in general, and of Rohaṇa in particular. 300
10. Trade between Śrī Laṅkā, India and the Western world from the fourth to seventh century, and how Roman coins came to Śrī Laṅkā. 319
Summary. 348
List of figures. 345
Maps. 349
Bibliography. 358
Indices. 398

Autor
Reinhold Walburg, Deutsche Bundesbank, Frankfurt am Main, Geldgeschichtliche Sammlung.

Quellen: Ludwig Reichert Verlag; Buchhandel.de.
Schlagwörter: Archäologie; Numismatik; Geschichte; Sri Lanka