Graffiti on Roman gold coins: spectrum of meaning and communication strategies (A11*)

• Subject Area: Ancient History
• Term: from 2019 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 178035969

The project focusses on the investigation of graffiti on Roman gold coins. By sighting, describing, and deciphering of Graffiti on numismatic collections with verifiable provenance they are to be subjected to a praxeologically oriented artefact analysis and systematically recorded in a database. The main focus is on image-text interactions recognizable on numismatic objects, as well as detectable forms of perception of writing and the reconstruction of the intention of graffiti on Roman coins.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 933: Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Head: Dr. Susanne Börner