Coining Urban Religion: Reflections on Urban Sanctuaries Depicted on Roman Civic Coinage from the Near East

This article focuses - out of an already small group - on three examples of civic coins from the Roman Near East on which we find images of temples situated in parts of their broader urban setting. The article focuses on this specific iconographic motif as a lens to examining urban religion. The con...

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Main Author: Raja, Rubina 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Mohr Siebeck 2023
In: Religion in the Roman empire
Year: 2023, Volume: 9, Issue: 3, Pages: 346-366
Further subjects:B Urban Religion
B Coin iconography
B Religious architecture in urban settings in the Near East
B Roman civic coinage
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