Dorothy Boylan Waage (January 8, 1905 - December 11, 1997) was an American

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, who published the catalogue of 14,000 Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusader coins excavated by

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in the 1930s. This has been described as "the best catalogue of Antiochene coinage".

Early life

Born in Kalamazoo, she attended

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and

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. She married Frederick O. Waage on August 28, 1935. He was Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology at

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from 1945 to 1971.

Numismatics

Both she and her husband worked on the archaeological and numismatic assemblages from the excavations undertaken at

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, which were undertaken by

from 1932 to 1939. In particular Waage worked on the non-Islamic material from the site, producing a catalogue of the 14,000 Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusader coins. It was published in 1952 as ''Antioch-on-the-Orontes. IV.: Part Two: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins''. Her analysis included the recognition of a new variant monogram on bronze coins of Seleucus II, originating the Antioch. She took an innovative approach to numismatic cataloguing, arranging the coins from Antioch according to period, but featuring the reverse side first. Her work was described by Professor

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as "the best catalogue of Antiochene coinage".

Personal life

Waage kept a life-long correspondence with the soprano

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Waage, Dorothy B. 1997 deaths 1905 births American women archaeologists Women numismatists American numismatists Kalamazoo College alumni American classical scholars American women classical scholars 20th-century American archaeologists Kalamazoo Central High School alumni