Join us for an Archaeological Institute of America National Lecture on April 14th, 2026 at 5:00 PM in Goldwin Smith Hall, G22.
This William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics will be given by Dr. Fae Amiro (Assisstant Professor at Mount Allison University).
"Provincial Coin Portraits of Roman Imperial Women and the Portrait Dissemination System."
Abstract
The coins produced by the hundreds of mints throughout the eastern Roman Empire rarely play a major role in Roman portrait studies. Yet, as the largest corpus of imperial portraits produced in the provinces, they are the best extant source for understanding imperial images. Portraits of women, with their nuanced variations in appearance, offer crucial evidence of the workings of the provincial coinage systems and the individuals involved in making decisions within it.
Biography
Fae Amiro is an Assisstant Professor at Mount Allison University. She has previously worked as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Western Ontario, a postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor at the University of Toronto, and the Crake Doctoral Fellow at Mount Allison. She received her PhD from McMaster University in 2021. Her research focuses on portraits of imperial women in Rome and the provinces, considering their role in both imperial messaging and the Roman portrait dissemination system. She also works as a numismatist for the coins excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda near Hadrian’s Wall.
