{"id":272080,"date":"2020-06-29T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T19:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=272080"},"modified":"2021-01-02T11:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T00:18:41","slug":"a-lecture-on-pre-islamic-coinage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%a7%d8%b6%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%ad%d9%88%d9%84-%d9%85%d8%b3%d9%83%d9%88%d9%83%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%85%d8%a7-%d9%82%d8%a8%d9%84-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d8%b3%d9%84%d8%a7%d9%85-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d9%83\/","title":{"rendered":"A lecture on pre-Islamic coins discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Issa Yousef, Director of the Department of Archaeology and Tangible Heritage at the Sharjah Archaeology Authority, delivered a lecture on \u201cPre-Islamic Coins Discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha.\u201d He described the site of the Kingdom of Mleiha as an important inland location in the central region, serving as a vital trade route between many capitals and cities of the ancient world. It encompassed numerous monumental buildings, including a palace and a fort, within which a coin-minting die was discovered\u2014one of the most important die sets of the first century CE. The Mleiha site also yielded camel and horse burials, Greek pottery including amphora jars, tombstones inscribed with Musnad and Aramaic scripts, jars from Cilicia, Indian pottery, and Roman glassware. The lecturer classified the coins found in the Kingdom of Mleiha in terms of category: the obol, the drachma, and the tetradrachma, as well as in terms of source, where Roman coins were discovered, such as the coins of Emperor Augustus and Tiberius, Nabataean silver coins, Seleucid coins, and Indian coins. At the end of the lecture, the lecturer expressed his thanks and appreciation to His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council of the Union, Ruler of the Emirate of Sharjah, patron of the rich cultural, artistic, and archaeological movement in the Emirate, the United Arab Emirates, the Arab and Islamic world, and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"P7kIil3NRotaACDYGXrBoWGqV6zSfgErbTH0yj5MqXd0m8dnV612wgiJE4jIH39Y1bfKQhx2A9kte\"><iframe title=\"A lecture on pre-Islamic coins discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gk6aCx0dWAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Issa Yousef, Director of the Department of Archaeology and Tangible Heritage at the Sharjah Archaeology Authority, delivered a lecture on \u201cPre-Islamic Coins Discovered in the Kingdom of Mleiha.\u201d He described the site of the Kingdom of Mleiha as an important inland location in the central region, serving as a vital trade route between many capitals and cities of the ancient world. 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