Majdán Mira: Elfeledett ezüstök : görög érmék a pécsi Janus Pannonius Múzeum gyűjteményéből. In: Új nemzedék: a szegedi Régészeti Tanszék tehetséggondozásának elmúlt évtizedei : Ünnepi kötet B. Tóth Ágnes, Kulcsár Valéria, Vörös Gabriella és Wolf Mária tiszteletére, (7). pp. 29-59. (2020)
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Abstract
Contacts between the Mediterranean and continental Europe in prehistory have always been in the focus of debate: their direction, nature, frequency and the facilitating parties are little known. It is, however, without question that during the 2nd–1st centuries BC a large number of Greek coins arrived in the Carpathian Basin, mainly from colonies on the eastern shores of the Adriatic Sea. The numerous drachma type coins mostly originated from two cities: Apollonia Illyria and Épidamnos/Dyrrachium. These two cities lost their independence to the growing Roman Republic at the end of the 3rd century BC but, as privileged civitas liberas, continued to mint their own Greek coins well into the 1st century BC. This paper presents the analysis of two coin finds from the Southern Transdanubian part of the Carpathian Basin. One was discovered in 1992 on the so called Jakab-hegy, a relatively large Iron Age hillfort. Although it was not fully uncovered, it consists of 21 Apollonian, 21 Dyrrachian drachmas and three Roman Republican denarii. The other one is a single chance find from 2016 from the area of Pellérd, which is only a few kilometres away from the Jakab-hegy. Unfortunately as both finds are without archaeological context, little can be said about why and how they ended up in Southern Transdanubia. After examining the drachmas and the denarii, it can be concluded that they were minted around the end of the 2nd century and the first half of the 1st century BC. It is possible that they were used as payment for indigenous Celtic or Illyrian/Pannonian warriors who took part in the Roman military campaigns on the Balkan Peninsula against Boirebistas or Mithridates VI.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Other title: | Forgotten silver Greek coins in the collection of the Janus Pannonius Museum in Pécs |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Új nemzedék: a szegedi Régészeti Tanszék tehetséggondozásának elmúlt évtizedei : Ünnepi kötet B. Tóth Ágnes, Kulcsár Valéria, Vörös Gabriella és Wolf Mária tiszteletére |
| Date: | 2020 |
| Volume: | 7 |
| ISSN: | 2062-9877 |
| ISBN: | 978-963-306-733-8 |
| Page Range: | pp. 29-59 |
| Series Name: | Monográfiák a Szegedi Tudományegyetem Régészeti Tanszékéről |
| Language: | Hungarian, English |
| Place of Publication: | Szeged |
| Related URLs: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/70805/ |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Régészet - leletek - Magyarország |
| Additional Information: | Bibliogr.: p. 40-42. és a lábjegyzetekben ; ill. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven |
| Subjects: | 06. Humanities 06. Humanities > 06.01. History and archaeology |
| Date Deposited: | 2020. Nov. 27. 10:40 |
| Last Modified: | 2023. Mar. 28. 11:04 |
| URI: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/70882 |
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