Draft:Maria Caccamo Caltabiano

Maria Caccamo Caltabiano (born 9 September 1946, in Giarre, Catania) is an Italian numismatist specialising in the iconography of coins in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.

Career
Maria Caccamo Caltabiano was a professor of Greek and Roman Numismatics at the University of Messina from 1994, and directed their department of Classical Studies between 1998 and 2004.

Among the most noteworthy centres of interest of her research was the iconography of coins in antiquity, notably that of Sicily and Magna Graecia, in the republic and provinces of Rome and in the Ptolemaic issues, among others. In this regard, she is the founder and director of the editorial series ''Semata e Signa. Studi di Iconografia monetale.''

For the study of monetary iconography, Maria Caccamo led the creation of the Lexicon Iconographicum Numismaticae Classicae et Mediae Aetatis (LIN), in collaboration with the universities of Bologna, Genoa and Milan, and under the patronage of the International Numismatic Council and the Lincean Academy.

Among other projects, she was the promoter and coordinator of the international project of the Diffusion and Research of Ancient Coinage of the Mediterranean Area (DRACMA), in collaboration with the Numismatic Museum of Athens and the Archaeological Museum of Cyprus, and financially supported by the European Commission.

Caccamo is vice-president of the International Numismatic Council, within which she chaired the organising committee of the XV International Numismatic Congress, held in Taormina in 2015. She is a member of the Accademia Italiana di Studi Numismatici and the Società Numismatica Italiana, and is part of the Scientific Committee of its body of expression, the Rivista Italiana di Numismatica.

Personal life
Maria Caccamo Caltabiano is married to Carlo Caccamo, a university professor of physics, with whom she had three daughters and one son.

Acknowledgments

 * (1994): XII International Prize for Numismatic Literature awarded by the awarded by the Commission des Numismates Professionels.

Publications
Caccamo Caltabiano is the author of more than 200 articles and collaborations in joint works, as well as some monographic works, among which the following should be highlighted:


 * (1977). Una città del Sud tra Roma e Annibale. La monetazione di Petelia. Sophia, Palermo.
 * (1992). Dalla premoneta alla moneta. Lessico monetale greco tra semantica e ideologia (with P. Radici Colace). ETS, Pisa. ISBN 978-8877416667
 * (1993). La monetazione di Messana, con le emissioni di Rhegion dell'età della tirannide. De Gruyter, Berlin-New York. ISBN 978-3110135275
 * (1997). Siracusa ellenistica. Le monete «Regali» di Ierone II, della sua famiglia e dei siracusani (with B.Carroccio and E. Oteri E.). Università degli Studi di Messina. ISBN 978-8882680008
 * (2007). Il significato delle immagini. Codice di comunicazione e immaginario della moneta antica. Falzea Editore, Reggio Calabria. ISBN 9788882962487
 * (2015). Survey of numismatic research: 2008-2013 (with C. Arnold-Biucchi). International Association of Professional Numismatists / International Numismatic Counicl. ISBN 9788897805427
 * (2015). XV International Numismatic Congress. Taormina 2015. Proceedings. Arbor Sapientiae, Roma. ISBN 978-88-94820-31-7