Embodying value?
Subtitle: the transformation of objects in and from the ancient world
By: edited by Annabel Bokern, Clare Rowan
Contributors: Momente de Transformation: Die Erzeugang und Zerstörung von Wert (Workshop) (2012); Embodying Value: The Transformation of Objects in and from the Roman World (Panel) (2012 : Frankfurt am Main, Germany); Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (22nd : 2012 : Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Series: BAR international series -- 2592; BAR international series -- 2592.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781407312200
Subjects: Archaeology; Congresses; Romans; Roman Antiquities; Antiquities
Notes: Includes papers from a workshop entitled Momente de Transformation: Die Erzeugang und Zerstörung von Wert and a panel entitled Embodying Value: The Transformation of Objects in and from the Roman World held at the 22nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in Frankfurt. Both held in Spring 2012.

Includes bibliographical references.

Text in English and German; summaries in German and English.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a Turkish teapot, or thinking things through / Annabel Bokern and Clare Rolwan; title: Der Wert des Menschen und sein Preis: das Verhältnis von Person und Eigentum bei Brautpreis, Wergeld und Sklaverei / Emanuel Seitz; title: Vergessen und neu belebt: das neolithische Steinbeil von seiner Produktion bis in die Neuzeit / Jennifer M. Bagley; title: Transformers energize! Aegean Bronze Age rhyta in moments of transformation / Laerke Recht; title: Der Wert des Kupfers: über die Entstehung und den Wandel von Wert vor 4000 Jahren / Martin Hensler; title: Heavy metal in hallowed contexts: continuity and change in aes deposits in Central Italy and Sicily / Andreas M. Murgan; title: The value of coinage in the Second Punic War and after / Clare Rowan; title: Votives and values: communicating with the supernatural / Katherine M. Erdman; title: The real value of fake: the curious case of cubiculum 34 in the house of Sallust (Pompeii VI 2, 4) / Suzanne van de Liefvoort; title: The de(con)struction of public monuments / Stefanie Bauer; title: Coin finds beyond the Danube: functions of fourth century gold coins within barbarian societies / Dragana Eremić; title: From manufactured goods to significant possessions: theorising pottery consumption in late antique Anatolia / William Anderson; title: The power of things? Reconsidering the value of reused Roman material culture in the Medieval period of Serbia / Gordana Ciric.