Curriculum Vitae Maria Caltabiano Caccamo Maria

Curriculum Vitae
Maria Caltabiano Caccamo
Maria Caltabiano Caccamo is full professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics, teacher of
“Iconography and History of ancient Numismatics”, Co-ordinator of the PhD Course in
Archaeological and Historical Sciences; Director of “Semata e Signa. Studi di Iconografia monetale”
Collection. She has been Director of the Department of Classical Studies (1998-2004).
She is promoter and coordinator of the LIN Project, regarding the publication of a ‟Lexicon
Iconographicum Numismaticae Classicae et Mediae Aetatis” in collaboration with the Universities
of Bologna, Genova, Milan and with the patronage of the International Numismatic Council.
She has been in charge of the research projects co-funded by MURST, MIUR, CNR, Sicilian Region
and Messina University. She has been in charge of the international D.R.A.C.M.A. project (Diffusion
and Research on Ancient Coinage of the Mediterranean Area / Dialogue and Research among
Athens, Cyprus, Messina and Agrigento), funded by the EU. She cured the CD-Rom ‟The ancient
Greek Coinage. Means of meeting and exchange between peoples, economies, cultures and
religions in the Mediterranean area”.
In 1994 she received the 13th International Prize for Numismatic Literature for her ‟La
monetazione di Messana”, AMuGS XIII (Berlin, New York 1993).
She has organised Conferences and Seminars, including: Lessici tecnici greci e latini (1990); La
Sicilia fra l᾿Egitto e Roma (1993); La Sicilia nel III sec. a.C.: Storia, Archeologia, Numismatica (2002);
La tradizione iconica come fonte storica. Il ruolo della Numismatica negli studi di Iconografia
(2003); Tyrannis, Basileia, Imperium. Forme, prassi e simboli del potere politico nel mondo greco e
romano (2007).
Research subjects: Sicilian and Magna-Graecian Coinage; Roman Republican and Provincial
Coinage; Macedonian and Ptolemaic Coinage; Greek and Roman Numismatic Lexicon; Iconography
and Iconology of Ancient Coinage.
She is President of the scientific and organizing Committee of the XVth International Numismatic
Congress, Taormina 2015.

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