Naslov
Skupni nalaz antoninijana iz Zbelave
(A hoard of antoniniani from Zbelava)

Autori
Težak, Spomenka

Izvornik
Vjesnik Arheološkog muzeja u Zagrebu (0350-7165) 43 (2010); 531-544

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, prethodno priopćenje, stručni

Ključne riječi
Zbelava; novac; Rim; skupni nalaz
(Zbelava; coins; Rome; coin hoard)

Sažetak
A hoard of antoniniani from Zbelava In July 1994, Stjepan Modrić found a coin hoard on the building site of his farm house in Zbelava near Varaždin. It was buried in a ceramic vessel and contained 2567 3rd-c. antoniniani. With financial aid from the then Bank of Varaždin, the City of Varaždin and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia, the finder received honest backing and this valuable and interesting find was brought in 1995 to the City Museum of Varaždin, where it is still today. The hoard consists of the coins of Gallienus, Salonina, Claudius Gothicus, Aurelianus, Severina, Tacitus, Florianus and Probus. It is hard to say anything concrete on historical circumstances of the concealment of the hoard. The remains of three Roman villae rusticae were found in the immediate vicinity: the one to the south of Zbelava is now known only through information gained in an archaeological survey, a second one is located in Jalžabet and its later phase falls in the 3rd and early 4th cc., while the third is on the site of Kupinje near Zamlaka, and part of the surface finds from this site were also dated to Late Antiquity. These remains help us to define the circumstances of everyday life in this area of the Drava limes hinterland in the second half of the 3rd and early 4th c. Such estates were the foundations of economic life in the Drava area, and, in order to survive, they had to be fortified. We can presume that the hoard was a private saving, perhaps concealed by a dweller in the villae rusticae in the immediate vicinity. Further analysis will test this hypothesis. It is interesting to compare this hoard with a hoard from Petrijanec found four years ago. In both hoards the earliest coins are those of Gallienus, and the structure of emperors in the Zbelava hoard corresponds to 55% of the coins from Petrijanec.

Izvorni jezik
Hrvatski, engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arheologija

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