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Dr Kenneth Sheedy
Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies

BA (Hons), MA (Hons), PhD University of Sydney

Director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies Contact Details: Telephone: +61 2 9850 8807 Fax: +61 2 9850 8240 Office: W6A 517 Email: Ken.Sheedy@humn.mq.edu.au

Profile

Dr Kenneth Sheedy was appointed the founding director of the Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies in 2000. He received his doctorate in Classical Archaeology from the University of Sydney in 1987. Between 1988 and 1991 he was a curator at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. He was appointed deputy director of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in 1991. In 1997 he obtained the position of curator for the Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Project at the British Museum, London.

His fields of research and teaching are Greek numismatics, and the art and archaeology of Greece with emphasis on the archaic period. He has a special interest in the archaeology and history of the Cycladic Islands. In addition to his on-going studies in the coinage of the Cyclades, South Italy and Athens, he is interested in Geometric pottery, Protoattic pottery, archaic sculpture and the early history of Delos. His current research projects are

• The coinage of South Italy. He is currently preparing the Gale collection of South Italian coins for publication in the series Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Australia. He is also working on a study of South Italian incuse coinage, and a new study of the 1911 Taranto Hoard.
• The coinage of the Cyclades. He is a member of the University of Athens excavations on Tenos and is responsible for the publication of the coins.
• The archaic sanctuary of Delos. He is currently involved with team studies of the colossal statues of Apollo on Delos and the Porinos Naos.

External Appointments

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum Australia Project: Secretary
Council of the Numismatic Association of Australia

Internal Appointments

Managing Committee of the Museum of Ancient Cultures: Chairman (2007)

Awards and Grants:

2005. Union Académique Internationale: Publication Grant for SNG Australia I.
2005. Australian Academy of the Humanities: Publication Grant for SNG Australia I.
2005. Numismatic Association of Australia for SNG Australia I.
2003. MU Early Career RS for research into the history of South Italian coinage

Publications:

Books

The Archaic and Early Classical Coinage of the Cyclades. Royal Numismatic Society. Special Publications 40 (London) 2006.

Pella in Jordan 1979-1990. The Coins. Sydney, Near Eastern Foundation, 2001. With R. A. G. Carson and A. Warmsley.

Edited and co-edited Books

Archaeology in the Peloponnese. New Excavations and Research. Oxford. Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Monographs, 1994.

Numismatic Archaeology Archaeological Numismatics. Oxford. Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Monographs, 1997. With Ch. Papageorgiadou-Banis.

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Great Britain XI. The Stancomb Collection. London, British Academy, 2000. With A. Burnett et al.

Electronic Publications

PRESVEIS. An electronic exhibition on Common Currencies in Antiquity. Website sponsored by the Hellenic Ministry for Culture and the European Union. Launched 1998. Primary contributor of texts.

The Coinage of Ephesos. Exhibition organised and curated by K. A. Sheedy. With B. Burrell. 2004. Address: http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ACANSCAE/

Encyclopaedia Entries

‘Barter’, Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History, 242-244. Great Barrington, Mass. 2005

‘Money’, Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History, 1292-1295. Great Barrington, Mass. 2005

Articles

“A Computer Program on New Comedy Masks”, Classicum 9 (1978) 12-14.

“A Computer Program for Isolating Groups of Dramatic Masks of the Hellenistic and Roman Periods”, Australian Archaeology Sept. 1978, 32-43.

“The Delian Nike and the Search for Chian Sculpture”, American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985) 619-626.

“ Three Vase-Groups from the Purification Trench on Rheneia and the Evidence for a Parian Pottery Tradition”, Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 80 (1985) 151-190.

“ Of Moulds and Mourners”, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 32 (1985) 11-124.

“Delos” in The Enduring Past, ed. A. Cremin (Sydney 1986).

“An Archaic Sphinx from Siphnos”, Annual of the British School of Archaeology at Athens 83 (1988) 363-373.

“Attic and Atticizing Pottery in the Cyclades During the Eighth Century BC”, in Ceramic and Iconographic Studies in Honour of Alexander Cambitoglou ed. J. P. Descoeudres (Sydney 1990) 31-40.

“A Prothesis Scene from the Analatos Painter”, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilungen 105 (1990)117-151.

Contributor to Decorative Arts and Design From the Powerhouse Museum, written and edited by the Museum Curatorial Staff (Sydney 1992).

“ Some Observations on Three Examples of Archaic Sculpture found on Siphnos”, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilungen 107 (1992) 107-117.

“ The Late Geometric Hydria and the Advent of the Protoattic Style” Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts. Athenische Abteilungen 107 (1992) 11-28.

“Ancient Greek Coins in the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney”, Mediterranean Archaeology 5/6 (1992/3) 143-160.

"Changes in Personnel at the Archaic Mint of Paros", in CHARAKTER. Studies in Honour of M. Oikonomidou, V. Penna et al (ed.s) (Athens 1996) 277-281.

"The Defence of Kythnos and the Origins of the Second Nesiotic League", Historia 45 (1996) 423-449.

"Late Archaic Hoards in the Cyclades and some thoughts on a regional pattern of trade”, in Numismatic Archaeology Archaeological Numismatics, ed.Kenneth A. Sheedy and Ch. Papageorgiadou - Banis (Oxford 1997) 107-117.

"J. M. Cook (1910-1994): a bibliography" (with R. Barber), BSA 92, 1997, 441-446.

"The Coinage of Kythnos "(with Ch.Papageorgiadou) in Kea-Kythnos: History and Archaeology. Proceedings of an International Symposium, Kea - Kythnos , 22-25 June 1994 ed.s L. Mendoni and A. Mazarakis - Ainian (Athens 1998) 649-655.

"The Dolphins, the Crab, the Sphinx and ‘Aphrodite’", in Studies in Greek Numismatics in memory of Martin Jessop Price ed.s. R. Ashton and S. Hurter (London 1998) 321-325.

“Some Greek coins in the British Museum”, (with R. Ashton, A. Meadows and U. Wartenberg), NC 158 (1998) 37-51.

“Keian federations and Keian coinage. A review article”, NC 158 (1998) 249-257.

“The Idlaion stater found in a tomb at Marion in 1886”, NC 159 (1999) 281-284.

“The Richest of the Islanders”, in Praktika A’Diethnous Siphnaikou Symposiou, Siphnos 25-28 June 1998, (Athens 2000), 219-226.

“Archaic Parian Coinage and Parian Marble”, in Paria Lithos. Parian Quarries, Marble and Workshops of Sculpture. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades, Paros, 2-5 October 1997. ed.s. D. Schilardi and D. Katsanopoulou (Athens 2000), 117-121.

“The Louvre Kouros (MND 888) from Paros”, in Paria Lithos. Parian Quarries, Marble and Workshops of Sculpture. Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Archaeology of Paros and the Cyclades, Paros, 2-5 October 1997. ed.s. D. Schilardi and D. Katsanopoulou (Athens 2000), 173-177.

‘New Acquisitions at ACANS 2000-2004’, Journal of the Numismatic Association of Australia 15 (2005) 45-49.

“The Early Classical Coinage of Siphnos; some thoughts on the influence of Athens”, in C. Alfaro, C. Marcos and P. Otero (ed.s), Actas del XIII Congresso Internacional de Numismática. Madrid 2003. (Madrid 2005), 303-305.

“Portraiture and the Persians”, JNAA 17 (2006) , 120-125.

Selected Book Reviews

K. H. Waters, Greek Coins in the University of Tasmania (Hobart, 1981), in NC144 (1984) 249.

J. Bouzek, Studies of Greek Pottery in the Black Sea (Prague, 1990), in CR 44 (1994) 160-161.

F. S. Knauss, Der Lineare Inselstil: Eine Kykladische Keramikwerkstatt am Übergang von der Spätgeometrischen zur Archaischen Zeit (Saarbrucken, 1997), in AJA 103 (1999) 559-561.

M. Oeconomidou, Archaia Nomismata (Athens, 1996), in NC 159, (1999) 366-367.

C. Souyoudzoglou-Haywood, The Ionian Islands in the Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age 3000-800 BC (Liverpool 1999), in Classicum 2000.

Fischer-Bossert, Chronologie der Didrachmenprägung von Tarent (Berlin 1999), in AJA 106 (2002)338-9.

N. Kourou et al. Limestone Statuettes of Cypriot Type Found in the Aegean. Provenance Studies, Classical Review, Oct 2004; 54: 542 – 544.

F.L. Holt, Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, Ancient History 34 (2005) 75-79.

N. Kourou, CVA Greece, Athens, National Museum Fasc. 5, Classical Review 56 (2006) 201-203.

Links

The Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/ACANS

Department of Ancient History:
http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/

Division of Humanities:
http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/

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http://www.mq.edu.au/

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