Saturday, February 20, 2021
5:00-6:30 PM
Off Campus Location
On Saturday, February 20, 2021, the Missouri chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt welcomes Dr. Irene Soto Marín for a talk entitled, "Roman Egypt and Its Coinage."
Dr. Irene Soto Marín is an assistant curator of numismatics at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and assistant professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she obtained her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (2010) and her MPhil (2015) and PhD (2018) from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has been working at the site of Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt since 2008. Her research focuses on the economy of Roman and Late Roman Egypt, and she has published on ceramics, taxes, coin molds, as well as edited some papyrological texts. She is currently working on her monograph project, "The Egyptian Emporium: The Economic Integration of a Late Roman Province."
This Zoom event is free and open to the public. You will need access to a computer, tablet, or phone that can access the Internet to participate.
To register, visit https://www.arce.org/event/arce-missouri-chapter-roman-egypt-and-its-coinage.
Dr. Irene Soto Marín is an assistant curator of numismatics at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and assistant professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. Born and raised in Costa Rica, she obtained her BA from Barnard College, Columbia University (2010) and her MPhil (2015) and PhD (2018) from the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. She has been working at the site of Amheida (ancient Trimithis) in the Dakhleh Oasis of Egypt since 2008. Her research focuses on the economy of Roman and Late Roman Egypt, and she has published on ceramics, taxes, coin molds, as well as edited some papyrological texts. She is currently working on her monograph project, "The Egyptian Emporium: The Economic Integration of a Late Roman Province."
This Zoom event is free and open to the public. You will need access to a computer, tablet, or phone that can access the Internet to participate.
To register, visit https://www.arce.org/event/arce-missouri-chapter-roman-egypt-and-its-coinage.
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
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| Location: | Virtual |
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| Event Type: | Livestream / Virtual |
| Tags: | Ancient Egypt, archaeology, Free, Lecture |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from Kelsey Museum of Archaeology |
