Dorothy B. Waage
{{Short description|American numismatist}}
Dorothy Boylan Waage (January 8, 1905 - December 11, 1997{{Cite web |title=Collection: Dorothy B. Waage Collection {{!}} ArchivesSpace at Western Michigan University Libraries |url=https://aspace.library.wmich.edu/repositories/3/resources/330 |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=aspace.library.wmich.edu}}) was an American numismatist, who published the catalogue of 14,000 Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusader coins excavated by Princeton University 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 and Kalamazoo College. She married Frederick O. Waage on August 28, 1935. He was Professor of the History of Art and Archaeology at Cornell University from 1945 to 1971.{{Cite web |title=Frederick O. Waage {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/contributor/Frederick-O-Waage/3082 |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
Numismatics
Both she and her husband worked on the archaeological and numismatic assemblages from the excavations undertaken at Antioch, which were undertaken by Princeton University from 1932 to 1939.{{Cite journal |last=Broneer |first=Oscar |date=1950-01-01 |title=Antioch-on-the-Orontes IV, Part One, Ceramics and Islamic Coins. By Frederick O. Waagé. |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/500648 |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=85–89 |doi=10.2307/500648 |jstor=500648 |issn=0002-9114|url-access=subscription }} 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.{{Cite journal |last=Carson |first=R. a. G. |date=1954 |title=Antioch-on-the-Orontes, IV, Part 2. Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins. By Dorothy B. Waage. 13½ × 11. Pp. xii + 187. Princeton: Princeton University Press. London: Oxford University Press. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1953. 163s. 6d. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquaries-journal/article/abs/antiochontheorontes-iv-part-2-greek-roman-byzantine-and-crusaders-coins-by-dorothy-b-waage-13-11-pp-xii-187-princeton-princeton-university-press-london-oxford-university-press-the-hague-martinus-nijhoff-1953-163s-6d/7D94560532CC69ED331C439773D4AB6A |journal=The Antiquaries Journal |language=en |volume=34 |issue=1–2 |pages=92–93 |doi=10.1017/S0003581500073388 |s2cid=161706867 |issn=1758-5309|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last=Jenkins |first=G. K. |date=1954 |title=Antioch-on-the-Orontes, IV, part 2: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins. By Dorothy B. Waage. Princeton: University Press, 1952 (London: Oxford University Press). Pp. xii + 187, 8 pll. £8 2s. 6d. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-hellenic-studies/article/abs/antiochontheorontes-iv-part-2-greek-roman-byzantine-and-crusaders-coins-by-dorothy-b-waage-princeton-university-press-1952-london-oxford-univeristy-press-pp-xii-187-8-pll-8-2s-6d/19A0B8A9BD7B113CE03339934C860B13 |journal=The Journal of Hellenic Studies |language=en |volume=74 |pages=233 |doi=10.2307/627648 |jstor=627648 |s2cid=164052522 |issn=2041-4099|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite book |last1=Metcalf |first1=David Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZmwaAAAAYAAJ&q=dorothy+waage |title=Coinage of the Crusades and the Latin East in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford |last2=Museum |first2=Ashmolean |date=1995 |publisher=Royal Numismatic Society |isbn=978-1-85444-062-4 |language=en}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4DtmAAAAMAAJ&q=dorothy+waage |title=The Numismatic Chronicle |date=2001 |publisher=Royal Numismatic Society |language=en}} It was published in 1952 as Antioch-on-the-Orontes. IV.: Part Two: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins.Waage, Dorothy B. Antioch-on-the-Orontes. IV.: Part Two: Greek, Roman, Byzantine and Crusaders' Coins. University Press, 1952.
Her analysis included the recognition of a new variant monogram on bronze coins of Seleucus II, originating the Antioch.Schindel, Nikolaus. [https://www.academia.edu/4181716/Zur_Minimuspr%C3%A4gung_des_Kaisers_Anastasius_I_Jahrbuch_f%C3%BCr_Numismatik_und_Geldgeschichte_61_2011_S_109_130 "Zur Minimus-Prägung des Kaisers Anastasius I."] Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 61 (2011): 109-130.{{Cite book |last=Society |first=American Numismatic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y5YaAAAAYAAJ&q=dorothy+waage |title=Museum Notes |date=1980 |publisher=American Numismatic Society |language=en}} 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 Kevin Butcher as "the best catalogue of Antiochene coinage".{{Cite book |last=Butcher |first=Kevin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9FlmAAAAMAAJ&q=dorothy+waage |title=Coinage in Roman Syria: Northern Syria, 64 BC-AD 253 |date=2004 |publisher=Royal Numismatic Society |isbn=978-0-901405-58-6 |pages=2, 362 |language=en}}
Personal life
Waage kept a life-long correspondence with the soprano Lotte Lehmann.{{Cite web |title=Lehmann (Lotte) and Dorothy Waage correspondence collection |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c86d5zft/entire_text/ |access-date=2022-11-22 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}
References
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