Alfred Raymond Bellinger (

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, 24 July, 1893 – 12 February, 1978) was an American

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

and

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist, researcher, and/or well-informed collector of numismatics, numismatics/coins ("of coins"; from Late Latin , genitive of ). Numismatists can include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholar-researchers who use coi ...

. He taught at

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and took part in the

Dura-Europos Dura-Europos was a Hellenistic, Parthian Empire, Parthian, and Ancient Rome, Roman border city built on an escarpment above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, Deir ez-Zor Governorate, S ...

excavations and published the book: Dura final report, VI, The coins.

Selected publications

* ''The Coinage of the Western Seleucid Mints from Seleucus I to Antiochus III''. (with

Edward Theodore Newell Edward Theodore Newell (1886–1941) was a U.S. numismatist. He served as the president of the American Numismatic Society between 1916 and 1941. He was awarded the medal of the Royal Numismatic Society The Medal of the Royal Numismatic Society ...

) Series: Numismatic Studies no. 4. New York: American Numismatic Society, 1941. * ''The end of the Seleucids'', 1949. * ''Troy, the coins'', 1961. * ''Catalogue of Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton and in Whittemore Collection'', (with

Philip Grierson Philip Grierson, (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist. He was Professor of Numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long and e ...

), Washington, 1966-1973.

References

1893 births 1978 deaths People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania 20th-century American archaeologists {{US-archaeologist-stub Scholars of Byzantine numismatics Yale University faculty American numismatists