September 13, 2018 – The International Conference AUREUS. The Power of Gold / Le Pouvoir de l’or will take place November 12-14, 2018 in Orléans and it will include a Poster session.
The AUREUS Program aims to understand the initial production and spread of a unified Gold Coinage through Western Europe: Roman Gold coinage, the result of a long tradition. The program is based on the analysis by LA-ICP-MS of nearly 1000 gold coins from various areas (Africa, Greece, Italy, the Celtic world, Spain) and jewelry from French Collections.
AUREUS is made possible by the long-standing collaboration between the Centre Ernest-Babelon of the IRAMAT and the Department of Coins, Medals and Antiquities of the Bibliothèque nationale de France that will provide most of the material analysed. In the course of the program, the classification of the material will be reexamined and improved. The results will be collected into a database and studied by historians and numismatic specialists along with physicists and chemists. This pluridisciplinary approach will shed light on the evolution of gold coinages in the Western part of the Mediterranean basin between the end of the 4th century B.C. and the 1th century A.D. AUREUS will provide essential information on gold supply; on the control of gold stocks; on the role of war in the transfer of gold; on the degree of economic and political integration of the different zones in question; on the economic, political, military and social uses of gold in Antiquity. The program includes talks and events for the general audience.
The Conference is the Closing Congress of the AUREUS program. The Poster session will be held on Tuesday November 14, 2018, from 4 PM to 5 PM. Presenters will be expected to be present in order to install and explain their poster. No registration fees will be required.
Posters should address subjects related to Gold and/or Gold Coinage in the Western World between the IVth Century BC and the end of the First Century AD (eg Archaeological Finds, Ongoing Research Program, Results of Previous Research, Methodological or Archaeometrical Developments, Numismatic and/or historical study of specific gold issues, Gold coin of special interest, Presentations of gold artefacts, etc.).
The posters may be written in French or English.
All poster proposals will be subject to approval by the Conference Organizing Committee. Some posters may be published in the Proceedings of the Conference according to the Committee’s recommendation.
The AUREUS program will last from March 2016 to March 2018 and is supported by the Région Centre-Val de Loire.
Partners: IRAMAT – Centre Ernest-Babelon (Université d’Orléans-CNRS); Bibliothèque nationale de France (département des Monnaies, médailles et antiques); EA Cethis (Université François-Rabelais-Tours); EA POLEN (Université d’Orléans).
The Conference will take place at the Centre International Universitaire pour la Recherche (Hôtel Dupanloup, rue Dupanloup, 45 000 Orléans, France).
Applications (titles and abstracts) should be submitted before September 15, 2018 to Arnaud Suspène and Gwenaelle Bréard.
More information on the conference can be obtained from the project website.