Highlights of the Annual Report - The Ashmolean Museum

22 / The Ashmolean 2002-03
The project will be published on-line through the Museum, and
conventionally by the British Museum Press and the Bibliothèque nationale
de France. To promote discussion prior to publication an international
symposium was organized by the Coin Room in 2002 on the topic of
Coinage and Identity, a theme very much in people’s minds at the moment as
a result of the Euro debate. A resulting volume, with chapters by sixteen
leading international scholars, will be published by Oxford University Press.
The Museum seeks to make the most of the opportunities created by an increase
in external funding for research in the humanities. Funding for this seven-year
project has been provided jointly by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (the
Museum’s primary funding agency) and by the University itself. Volker Heuchert
and Liv Yarrow share a research fellowship made possible by the funding, and the
project is directed by Christopher Howgego.
Smyrna, AD 182-5.
Coin celebrating the ‘twinning’ of Smyrna and
Athens, two of the great intellectual centres of
the Roman world. The winged Nemesis represents
Smyrna, and Athena represents Athens.
Ashmolean Museum.
Egypt, AD 139-40.
An extraordinary representation of a bust of
Sarapis over a massive foot.
American Numismatic Society.