Dr Matthew Ponting BA, PhD
Senior Lecturer Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
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- Personal WebsiteMetallurgy and metrology of Roman silver coinage
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Research
Research Interest 1
Ancient metalwork; materials and technology
Archaeological materials and their investigation and analysis.
Ancient coinage
Roman archaeology
Classical and Medieval Near East
Research Grants
The Athlit ram revisited: technical metallurgical and provenance analysis coupled with surface mapping and 3D modeling of the ram and its timbers
HONOR FROST FOUNDATION (UK)
October 2016 - June 2019
RACOM Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean: 200 BC to AD 64
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
September 2019 - August 2024
An economy in chaos? Analysis of Roman silver coins, Nero to Septimus Severus.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC)
March 2006 - February 2009
2000 years of cross-cultural interaction: scientific analysis of the non-ferrous metal artefects from the excavations of the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem.
ANGLO-ISRAEL ARCHAEOLOGY SOCIETY (UK)
March 2005 - May 2007
Investigate the extraction of lead in Iron Age and Roman Somerset and its possible link with silver production
SOMERSET ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
March 2008 - March 2009
The British archaeological project at the Iron Age emporium of Vetren-Pistiros, Bulgaria.
BRITISH ACADEMY (UK)
June 2005 - August 2006
A third century crisis? The composition and metallurgy of Roman silver coinage: Septimius Severus to Valerian and Gallienus.
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL (AHRC)
October 2014 - September 2018
Research Collaborations
Dr. Dan Levine
External: University of Southampton
The relationship between the scientific (archaeometallurgical) and textual sources for information about the manufacture and use copper-alloy artefacts in ancient societies.
Prof. Chris Howgego
External: The University of Oxford
Research into the coinage of Alexandria in Egypt during the Antonine period.
Dr. Simon James
External: University of Leicester
Joint application to BA for funding to investigate Roman military metalwork from Dura Europos, Syria.
Dr. Oren Tal
External: Tel Aviv University
Study of Philistian silver coinage.
Prof. Kevin Butcher
External: University of Warwick
Research into the composition of Roman Imperial silver coins.
Dr. Steven Minnitt
External: Somerset County Museum Service
Lead isotope analysis of lead artefacts from Meare and Glastonbury Lake Villages.
Dr. L. Barham
Internal
Study of 18th century glass trade beads from Zambia.
Chris Somerfield
External: University of Nottingham
Development of improved ICP-AES analysis techniques for silver-based alloys.
Haim Gitler
External: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Study of the coinage of Septimius Severus.
Study of Fatimid coin dies.
Study of Ptolomaic minting techniques.
Study of Philistian silver coinage.