Alfred Raymond Bellinger (

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

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

numismatist A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...

. He taught at

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and took part in the

Dura-Europos Dura-Europos, ; la, Dūra Eurōpus, ( el, Δούρα Ευρωπός, Doúra Evropós, ) was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the vill ...

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) 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, FBA (15 November 1910 – 15 January 2006) was a British historian and numismatist, emeritus professor of numismatics at Cambridge University and a fellow of Gonville and Caius College for over seventy years. During his long an ...

), 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