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The ‘Vota Publica’ Tokens from late antique Rome: Isiac and Egyptian Cults within a Christianizing Roman Empire – VOTA

Publications: 

- Peer-reviewed article: C. Mondello, ‘Disjecta membra. Engravings with numerals on Roman bronze coins and tesserae from the fourth century AD’, “The Numismatic Chronicle” 184 (2024), pp. 71-96. Openly accessible at:  https://zenodo.org/records/17168850

Peer-reviewed paper: C. Mondello, ‘A gold «Vota Publica» token from the collection of Charles III de Croÿ (1560–1612)’ in J. Bodzek et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11–16.09.2022, Warsaw, Vol. IV (Brepols: Warsaw 2025), pp. 377-386. ISBN: 978-2-503-61624-7. Openly accessible at:  https://zenodo.org/records/17167334

- Peer-reviewed article: C. Mondello, Voti pubblici per “Juppiter” Diocleziano e Massimiano Erculeo Augusti, “Rivista Italiana di Numismatica” (forthcoming).

- Peer-reviewed article: C. Mondello ‘Carthage et l’émission VOTA PVBLICA de la Deuxième Tétrarchie. Une nouvelle attribution d’atelier’, “Revue Numismatique” (forthcoming).

 

Digital outputs:

- Online catalogue of the ‘Vota Publica’ tokens (more than 1,100 catalogue entries), openly accessible on the “Tokens Nomisma Database by the University of Warwick. 

“Type” database: https://coins.warwick.ac.uk/token-types/.

“Specimen” database: https://coins.warwick.ac.uk/token-specimens/.

 

Conferences and public lectures:

- 15th Roman Archaeology Conference/32nd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC/TRAC), University College London (UCL), London (UK), from 11-14 April 2024.

- Public lecture at the DiCAM, University of Messina (Italy), 19 June 2024. 

- Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Society for Classical Studies (SCS), Philadelphia (USA), January 2-5, 2025.

- Public lecture at the Associazione Culturale Anassilaos / Biblioteca Pietro de Nava, Reggio Calabria (Italy), October 2025. 

 

Other dissemination and outreach activities: 

- VOTA project web-area: https://dicam.unime.it/it/ricerca/vota-publica-tokens-late-antique-rome-isiac-and-egyptian-cults-within-christianizing-roman

- Launch of tweets on the project’s results and topics via the PI’s Twitter (= X) account: @CristianMondel1

- A blog untitled ‘A silver token of Julian in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford’, published on the Warwick University website on 27th April 2023: 

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/dept_projects/tcam/blog/lateantique/#April2023

- A blog untitled ‘A “Vota Publica” token of the usurper Nepotian?’, published on the Warwick University website on 9th February 2024: 

https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/research/dept_projects/tcam/blog/lateantique/#Feb2024