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Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant

Kropp, Andreas

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This article looks at the work of die engravers who worked for multiple mints of Roman tetradrachms, a phenomenon known as engraver-sharing. Building on art-historical methods developed in other areas of ancient art and adapting them to suit this particular genre, the hands of individual engravers are, for the first time, identified and their work is traced across different mints in the southern Levant. These identifications provide important evidence for mint attributions and elucidate how engravers organized their work at the mints, thus providing a first glimpse of the tetradrachm manufacturing process.

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Kropp, A. (2025). Different mint, same engraver: engraver-sharing at Caracalla tetradrachm mints in the southern Levant. Levant, 57, https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2025.2498858

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Feb 4, 2025
Online Publication Date May 20, 2025
Publication Date May 20, 2025
Deposit Date Jun 16, 2025
Publicly Available Date Jun 17, 2025
Journal Levant
Print ISSN 0075-8914
Electronic ISSN 1756-3801
Publisher Maney Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 57
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/00758914.2025.2498858
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/50439900
Publisher URL https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2025.2498858

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