'The Romans in Asia' symposium
"The Romans in Asia," a sympos-ium being held Friday-Saturday, Oct. 6-7, will use Yale University's prodigious collection of coins, paper money and medals from the eastern reaches of the Roman Empire to better understand the civilization that flourished there 2,000 years ago.
In 2001, the Yale Art Gallery took custody of the University's numismatic holdings, which consist of some 100,000 objects, and the following year, the gallery appointed a curator to oversee the collection and to encourage its use in research and scholarship. Since that time, the collection has been augmented by nearly 5,000 pieces, principally from the collection of Peter R. and Leonore Franke.
This conference is intended to celebrate the revival of numismatic study, in which Yale has a long tradition, and to illustrate the application of numismatic evidence in the study of the Romans in the Anatolian peninsula.
The symposium will include three sessions: at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, and at 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Saturday. All will be held in Rm. 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St. The symposium is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is recommended. For registration and a complete program schedule, visit www.yale.edu/classics/news.html.
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