QUMRAN 1955 C

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Location

City

Kalya [קַלְיָה]

County

Judaea [יְהוּדָה]

Region

West Bank [الضفة الغربية; הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית]

Country

Israel, Palestinian Territories

Ancient place

Qumran

Lat/Long/Alt

31.741 / 35.459 / 0 view

Location details

Centred on field

Information

18785

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https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/18785

Hoard name

QUMRAN 1955 C

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

21 Mar 1955

Total number of coins

153

Summary

153 silver coins found with a jug: 102 drachm, 48 didrachm, 1 Seleucid tetradrachm and 2 Seleucid didrachms.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Archaeological site
Closing reign (earliest)

Uncertain (non Roman)
Terminal year (earliest)

-9
Closing reign (latest)

Uncertain
Terminal year (latest)

-8
Opening year (earliest)

-138
Opening year (latest)

-137
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Numismatic rating

Excellent
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Site comment

Locus 120, to the right of the door's entrance. Against the north wall, a vessel was hidden and contained more than 150 coins.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Rural

Context

Domestic building

Depositional context

Wall

Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic jug

Jug of a type common in Khirbet Qumran. The neck is too narrow for the coins to slip through, but they were inserted through a hole pierced in the pierced in the belly of the vessel.

References

Reference

Sharabani, M. - 1980 - Monnaies de Qumrân au Musée Rockefeller de Jérusalem

Ref

274-284

Comment

Most of the coins published in that article belong to the QUMRAN HOARD A.

Reference

Butcher, K. - 2004 - Coinage in Roman Syria: Northern Syria, 64 BC - AD 253

Ref

p. 217, no. 15a

Comment

'3 hoards found in the Qumrân excavations, subsequently mixed together'.

Reference

Lönnqvist, K. and Lönnqvist, M. - 2006 - The Numismatic Chronology of Qumran: Fact and Fiction

Ref

138-140, 145

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Coin Hoards
of the Roman Empire

QUMRAN 1955 C

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic jug

Jug of a type common in Khirbet Qumran. The neck is too narrow for the coins to slip through, but they were inserted through a hole pierced in the pierced in the belly of the vessel.

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Coin Hoardsof the Roman Empire

QUMRAN 1955 C

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Containers belonging to this hoard

Ceramic jug

Jug of a type common in Khirbet Qumran. The neck is too narrow for the coins to slip through, but they were inserted through a hole pierced in the pierced in the belly of the vessel.

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