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JANAPOLĖ

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Location

City

Janapolė

County

Telšiai

Region

Country

Lithuania

Lat/Long/Alt

55.813993 / 22.380189 / 158 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

15460

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/15460

Hoard name

JANAPOLĖ

Alternative names

JANAPOLE; YANAPOLE; JANAPOL; DARGISKE; DARGELISHKES; Dargeliszkie; Яанаполе.

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1934

(to)

1936

Total number of coins

14

Summary

Circa two kilos of coins and jewelry (2 bronze bracelets). For years it has been considered that Janapole and Dargeliszkie were two separate hoards. 14 bronze coins are hosted in the Museum "Alka" in Telšiai: Severus Alexander - Gordian III (AD 238-244).

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Coins
Rating
Archaeological context
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Objects
References
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Credit

Discovery method

Agricultural or drainage work
Land Use

Cultivated Land
Disposition

Museum "Alka" Telšiai, Lithuania, (Inv.nos. 3514-3527; 6227; 18600)
Finder(s)

J. Bruzhinskis
Comment

While ploughing.
Closing reign (earliest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (earliest)

238
Closing reign (latest)

Gordian III
Terminal year (latest)

244
Opening year (earliest)

222
Opening year (latest)

235
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Good
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Recovery method

Non-archaeological intervention
Site class

Uncertain

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic vessel

Objects belonging to this hoard

Bronze bracelet
Decoration of incised dots and lines.

Bronze bracelet
Bronze bracelet, fragmentary. Decoration of incised dots and lines.

References

Mihel'bertas, M.M. - 1968 - Два клада римсних провинциальных монет из западной Литвы [Two hoards of Roman provincial coins from western Lithuania]

Ref

68-72

Reference

Michelbertas, M. - 2001 - Corpus der römischen Funde im europäischen Barbaricum. Litauen

Ref

56-57, no. VIII-03-2/1.1

Reference

Kropotkin, V. V. and Depeyrot, G. - 2005 - Les trouvailles de monnaies romaines en U.R.S.S.

Ref

238; 1408; 243, no. 1903

Reference

Mihel'bertas, M. - 2010 - ДОПОЛНИТЕЛЬНЫЕ СВЕДЕНИЯ О КЛАДЕ РИМСКИХ МОНЕТ ИЗ ДАРГЕЛИШКЕ (Р-Н ТЕЛЬШЯЙ, ЛИТВА) [The additional data about hoard of Roman coins from Dargeliszkie (county Telšiai, Lithuania)]

Ref

53-59

Uploaded by C. Gazdac (July 2019). Imported from CSV by Dr Cristian Gazdac.