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

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 ...

, 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

Kalamazoo Central High School Kalamazoo Central High School is a public high school in Kalamazoo, Michigan serving students from ninth through twelfth grades. It was the first public high school in Michigan. It began operating in 1858 and graduated its first class of five men a ...

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

Antioch Antioch on the Orontes (; grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου, ''Antiókheia hē epì Oróntou'', Learned ; also Syrian Antioch) grc-koi, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπὶ Ὀρόντου; or Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐπ� ...

, 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 Seleucus II Callinicus Pogon ( el, ; ''Kallinikos'' means "beautifully triumphant"; ''Pogon'' means "the Beard"; July/August 265 BC – December 225 BC),, . was a ruler of the Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, who reigned from 246 BC to 225 BC. Faced ...

, 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

Lotte Lehmann Charlotte "Lotte" Lehmann (February 27, 1888 – August 26, 1976) was a German soprano who was especially associated with German repertory. She gave memorable performances in the operas of Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Ludwig van Beethoven, ...

References

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