Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 33, 2015

This volume of the journal contains eight papers and eight reviews. The contributions deal with the German Ancient Historian F. M. Heichelmann [1901-68] who was forced to emigrate to Britain and Canada in the Third Reich due to his Jewish descent [Altmayer], imperialism in the emergence of Roman Gaul [Silver], the handling of “bad” coins according to ancient papyrus letters [Reinard], mummificators, physicians, and anatomists in Graeco-Roman Egypt [Reggiani], landscape in antique literature on military science [Stoll], measures of capacity in papyri [Reggiani], the Germanicus coins of Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius [Reinard] and with financing the Roman Civil Wars [Günther]. The reviews relate to books on the ancient economy of Asia Minor, shopping in ancient Rome, life and culture in the Egyptian oasis of Trimithis/Amheida, work, economy, and society in Roman Italy, the Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman coinage, 83 Greek, Coptic, and bilingual papyri of the 7th to 9th century A. D. from Baouît in the Louvre, the economy of Sparta, and a hundred antique professions.