Imagines Nummorum: Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum Online
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Exploring ancient Greek coins for questions of visual and cultural history, and developing an iconographic thesaurus based on Linked Open Data.
Ancient coins represent a unique visual medium that allows for the systematic linking of image analyses and contextual information. This enables central image-related questions to be connected to the historically and spatially specific production and use of coins, examining the relationship between image and meaning, image and medium, image and text, image production and consumption, as well as seriality and originality. Through their cross-media interweaving, coins emerge as a key category for understanding the visual culture of antiquity.
Imagines Nummorum: Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum Online
Host Academy
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Location and federal state
Berlin, Berlin
Type
Editions: Ancient History
Project number
II.C.31
The ImagNum project provides, for the first time, a tool for the field of classical studies that visualizes and contextualizes image transfers. The Academies’ research project pursues four core objectives:
- Publishing Greek coins from the Berlin Coin Cabinet (114,845 objects), one of the world’s most significant collections, to illustrate the object-historical dimension of numismatic iconography.
- Developing an Image Thesaurus (Thesaurus Iconographicus Nummorum Graecorum), based on Linked Open Data with persistent identifiers and standardized exchange formats, enabling context-sensitive evaluations of ancient visual language.
- Creating digital infrastructure and AI tools that interconnect the communicative and contextual aspects of coins, facilitating analysis.
- Performing selective research to address central questions in the history of visual and cultural studies.