Egyptian Arab-Byzantine Coins discovered in Marea / Philoxenite
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18071880Keywords:
Egyptian Arab-Byzantine coinage, Early Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Egypt, Umayyad Egypt.Abstract
Marea/Philoxenite flourished in the Early Byzantine period. One of the largest Christian basilicas in Egypt was erected there in the 6th century. The city performed a crucial role as a stopover on a pilgrimage route between Alexandria and the sanctuary of Abu Mina.
Approximately 9,000 coin finds have been registered during comprehensive archaeological research conducted by the University of Warsaw in cooperation with the Archaeological Museum in Krakow since 2000. The main purpose of the project ‘Coin circulation in the Byzantine and Umayyad Marea / North Hawwariya: studies in the monetary economy of Mareotis region in the hinterland of Alexandria‘, directed by P. Jaworski, is to analyse the discovered coins.
Most of the 9,000 specimens were issued in Late Roman and Early Byzantine times. However, there is an addition of issues struck after the Arab conquest of Egypt in the 640s. Among them is a peculiar group of so-called Arab-Byzantine coins, which can contribute to our understanding of the transition period.
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