Shpresa Gjongecaj Vangjeli (born 6 February 1952) is an
Albanian archaeologist 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 ...
, who was the Director of the Institute of Archaeology at the
Academy of Albanological Studies
The Academy of Albanological Studies ( sq, Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike) is the main institution of albanology in Albania.
History
The Academy of Albanological Studies started as part of the reconstruction and modernization of the Albanian ...
from 2008 to 2013. She is the recipient of the Vermeil Token from the
French Numismatic Society and was appointed a Corresponding Member of the
Archaeological Institute of America, both in recognition of her scholarship and services to numismatics.
Biography
Gjongecaj was born on 6 February 1952 in
Tirana
Tirana ( , ; aln, Tirona) is the capital and largest city of Albania. It is located in the centre of the country, enclosed by mountains and hills with Dajti rising to the east and a slight valley to the northwest overlooking the Adriatic Sea ...
, Albania. She studied at the Faculty of Philology at the
University of Tirana
The University of Tirana ( sq, Universiteti i Tiranës, abbreviated UT) is a public university located at the central borough of Tirana 10 in Tirana, Albania. It was established as the ''State University of Tirana'' in 1957 through merging of f ...
in 1969 and graduated in Classical Languages (Latin and Ancient Greek) in 1973. She later received specialized training in numismatics with
Olivier Picard
Olivier Picard (4 March 1940, Bernay) is a French Hellenist. He was director of the French School at Athens and is a member of the Institut de France.
Biography
A student at the École normale supérieure (1960), Olivier Picard obtained his ...
at the
Sorbonne (Paris IV) and the
French School at Athens
The French School at Athens (french: École française d’Athènes, EfA; el, Γαλλική Σχολή Αθηνών ''Gallikí Scholí Athinón'') is one of the seventeen foreign archaeological institutes operating in Athens, Greece.
History ...
, with
Michel Amandry
Michel Amandry (born in 1949) is a French numismatist.
Career
Michel Amandry, the son of the archaeologist Pierre Amandry, studied in Strasbourg and Paris, where in 1979 he received his doctorate at the Sorbonne. From 1991 to September 2013 he ...
in the Medal Office in Paris, and with
Giovani Gorini (
gl) at the
University of Padua
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. In 1983 she was awarded her doctorate, with a thesis entitled "Coins of Illyrian Cities", under the direction of
Selim Islami (
sq).
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''Akademia E Studimeve Albanologjike''
Since 1974 she has been professionally linked to the Institute of Archaeology at the
Academy of Albanological Studies
The Academy of Albanological Studies ( sq, Akademia e Studimeve Albanologjike) is the main institution of albanology in Albania.
History
The Academy of Albanological Studies started as part of the reconstruction and modernization of the Albanian ...
.
In 1994 she held a Visiting Fellowship at the Heberden Coin Room at the
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Between 1999 and 2007 she was the head of the Department of Antiquities in the Institute of Archaeology at the Academy of Albanological Studies, and from 2008 to 2013 she was Director of the Institute of Archaeology.
Gjongecaj is also Professor of Numismatics at the University of Tirana and has participated in a number of archaeological expeditions and research projects.
She led research on the
Hija e Korbit Hoard, an assemblage of 618 silver coins. She has also worked on the Roman coins of
Butrint
Butrint ( el, Βουθρωτόν and Βουθρωτός, ''Bouthrōtón'', la, Buthrōtum) was an ancient Greek and later Roman city and bishopric in Epirus. "Speakers of these various Greek dialects settled different parts of Greece at differe ...
, with
Sam Moorhead and
Richard Abdy. She has worked on coins from the prehistoric burial tumulus of
Lofkënd in Albania.
Recognition
* In 2000 she was awarded the ''Vermeil'' ''Token -'' the medal of the
French Numismatic Society (
fr).
*In 2010 she was appointed a Corresponding Member of the
Archaeological Institute of America.
Selected works
Monographs
* ''Thesare me monedha antike të gjetura në Shqipëri (shek. V-I p.Kr)'' (Tirana, 2015).
*''Trésors de monnaies antiques trouvés en Albanie (Ve-Ier siècle av. J.-C.),'' with O. Picard (École française d'Athènes, Athens, 2019).
Articles
* (1995). "Le monnayage d'argent d'Égine et le trésor de Hollm (Albanie) 1991", with H. Nicolet-Pierre, in ''Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique'', 119-1. Páxinas 283-338.
* (1998). "Le trésor de Dimalla 1973 et le passage du monnayage hellénistique au monnayage impérial à Apollonia d'Illyrie", with O. Picard, in ''Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique'', 122-2. Páxinas 511-527.
* (2001). "Apollonia et le monnayage épirote: le trésor de Bakërr", with O. Picard, in ''Revue Numismatique'', 157. Páxinas 323-249.
* (2003). "Monnaies d’Apollonia", with O. Picard, in ''Iliria'', 31. Páxinas 259-266.
* (2010). "Le monnayage de Phoinikè sous l’empire romain", in ''Revue Numismatique'', 166. Páxinas 383-396.
*(1998). Gjongecaj, Shpresa. "Le trésor de Kreshpan (Albanie)." ''Revue numismatique'' 6.153, 81-102.
References
External links
*
Museum of the Bank of AlbaniaHoards of Antique coins found in Albania, an important source of information on the political and economic life of Illyrians in the V-I century BC''Money and banking in Albania, from antiquity to modern times:'' ''First Conference of the Museum of the Bank of Albania Proceedings 14–15 June 2017'' (article)
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Living people
1952 births
Women numismatists
Albanian archaeologists
Women archaeologists
Academic staff of the University of Tirana
Paris-Sorbonne University alumni
People from Tirana