Gil Davis
Lecturer
Department of Ancient History
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
He is the Director of the Program for Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney, and the Managing Editor of the Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia. His PhD was in Late Archaic Athenian law and numismatics. He teach Greek History and am continuing my research especially in numismatics focussing on a new corpus of early-Attic coinage and associated metallurgical studies as part of an ARC-funded research project, with two volumes being presently completed for publication.He is a Partner/Collaborator in a major research project funded by the ERC (2.5 mil euros) entitled: "Silver Isotopes and the Rise of Money". He has set up and run the Ancient Israel Program which has garnered significant community support (donations totalling over $1.7 mil) teaching ancient Israel in its Near Eastern context, taking students on digs in Israel, bringing leading scholars to teach and speak in Australia, and creating Resources for Teachers in the school system. He has recently co-edited a volume on Communications in the Ancient Near East (Routledge forthcoming).
Research Interest
Ancient History
Publications
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Communicating in the past; Connecting with the Past Davis, G. & Keimer, K. H. 2017 Registers and modes of communication in the ancient near east: Getting the Message Across. London: Routledge
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Significance of the weight, size and purity of Archaic 'Owl' Tetradrachms Davis, G., Sheedy, K. & Gore, D. 2018 Metallurgy in Numismatics, Volume 6. London: The Royal Numismatic Society, Vol. 6
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Miltiades II and his alleged mint in the Chersonesos Davis, G. & Sheedy, K. 2018 In : Historia - Zeitschrift fur Alte Geschichte.
