Open AccessIMPORTED HELLENISTIC COINS FOUND NEAR PARTIZANSKOE VILLAGE (SOUTHWEST CRIMEA) AS A HISTORICAL SOURCE
Author(s) -
Д.В. Андриевский,
Mikhail M. Choref
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
materialy po arheologii i istorii antičnogo i srednevekovogo pričernomorʹâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2713-2021
DOI - 10.53737/2713-2021.2021.43.50.030
Subject(s) - foothills , ancient history , bronze , population , archaeology , geography , history , demography , cartography , sociology
Публикуется небольшая, но весьма интересная подборка монет, найденных в начале XXI в. жителями села на поверхности холма Тавель. Это бронзовые монеты, отчеканенные в Сиракузах при Гикете II и Гиероне II, а также в Александрии или на Кипре при Птолемеях II, VI и VIII, а также IX или X. Вряд ли эти монеты могли одновременно использоваться в Юго-Западной Таврике в качестве платежных средств, т.к. выпущены они в двух достаточно удаленных государствах по различным стопам, из малоценного бронзового сплава. Речь идет, очевидно, о разновременных подношениях местному святилищу, находившемуся в III—I вв. до н.э. на холме Тавель. Монеты жертвовали, вероятно, потому, что чтили размещенные на них изображения. Сам же факт обнаружения этих артефактов свидетельствует о наличии контактов между населением предгорий Таврики и государств Центрального и Восточного Средиземноморья в указанный период. Our attention was attracted by rather small yet interesting numismatic sample of the Hellenistic times. The coins were gathered at the beginning of the 2000s by the residents of the village on the present-day surface of the Tavel hill. The sample consists of bronze coins minted in Syracuse under Hiketas II and Hieron II as well as in Alexandria or in Cyprus under Ptolemies II, VI, and VIII, as well as IX or X. Judging by the fact that coins were released by rather remote polities using different standards of coinage based on low-value bronze alloys, it seems unlikely that they could be simultaneously used in Southwest Taurica as means of payment. We believe that we are dealing with offerings repeatedly made for the local sanctuary which situated upon Tavel hill between the 3rd and the 1st century BCE. We assume that the reason why coins were donated to the sanctuary was that the images placed on them were honored. The very fact of the discovery may surely testify that some contacts took place in the time range mentioned above between the population of the foothills of Taurica and those of the polities in Central and Eastern Mediterranean.