Public Buildings in Laodicea Maritima According to Numismatic Sources
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https://doi.org/10.52575/2687-0967-2022-49-3-520-527Keywords:
Laodicea in Syria, numismatics, Syria, urban tradition, public buildingsAbstract
The purpose of this study is to supplement available information about public buildings in Laodicea in Syria using the numismatics. Coinage of the city in the first – third cent. A. D. makes it possible to trace architectural peculiarities and outline the main stages of existence of three constructions. The first of them is the lighthouse of Laodicea which was an important infrastructure facility of the port of the city during Roman time. Two other buildings represented remarkable temple complexes or separate religious constructions functioning in the city in the mid. second – mid. third cent. A. D. All buildings that described in the paper aren’t mentioned in any written sources, construction remains from them haven’t been yet found when conducting of archaeological research. The city coinage of Laodikeia provides information about the temple architecture of the city, which allows us to clarify our ideas about the public buildings of this city of Roman times in Syrian Region as a unit complex.
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