MTSKHETA – MTSKHETIAN CRYPT 1951

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Location

City

Mtskheta [მცხეთა]

County

Mtskheta [მცხეთა]

Region

Mtskheta-Mtianeti [მცხეთა-მთიანეთი]

Country

Georgia

Ancient place

Meschistha
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtskheta

Lat/Long/Alt

41.839326 / 44.663121 / 483.9 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

18910

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Hoard name

MTSKHETA – MTSKHETIAN CRYPT 1951

Alternative names

მცხეთა; Мцхета

Data type

Group of single finds

Date of discovery (from)

1951

(to)

1951

Total number of coins

Summary

63 silver and gold coins discovered in a burial consisting in 5 imitations of Alexander III, of Alexander staters, 51 Parthian drachms: Artabanus I or II? 2, Sinatruces 1, Phraates III 1; Mithridates III 3; Orodes II 43, Phraates IV 1; 2 drachms of Polemon I of Pontus; a denarius of Augustus; 4 aurei: aureus of Tiberius, aureus of Nero, aureus of Vitellius, and aureus of Vespasian.

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Discovery method

Controlled archaeological investigation
Land Use

Unknown
Disposition

National Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
Comment

List of coins based on Iberia and Rome, 2008. This is a one cell crypt dated from the last quarter of the 1st century A.D. The discovery is located in Mtskheta, on the right bank of the Kura, close to the railway station an at the foot of a moutain.was excavated in 1951.
Closing reign (earliest)

Vespasian
Terminal year (earliest)

69
Closing reign (latest)

Vespasian
Terminal year (latest)

79
Opening year (earliest)

-100
Opening year (latest)

-100
Coin-level data

Not available

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Numismatic rating

Fair
Context rating

Fair
Findspot rating

Fair

Date of excavation (from)

1951
Date of excavation (to)

1951
Site comment

Excavated by G. Lomtatidze. Comments issued from Iberia and Rome, 2008, p. 264: 'Mtskhetian Crypt (62). A burial-building of the last quarter of the 1st century A.D. It is situated in Mtskheta, on the right bank of the Kura, at the foot of the mountain near the railway station. It was excavated in 1951 (G. Lomtatidze). A onecell crypt with an arch is located in a yard, enclosed with a wall. A gable roof is covered with tiles. The eastern front with a pediment is faced with sandstone. A right-angled door was built up with flat stone. The vault of the cell and walls are plastered with hydraulic mortar. The floor is made of hewn stone. An adult, with his head directed to the west, and a child were buried in the crypt. Despite the fact that the burial had been robbed before, some interesting material was found there: more than 15 glass vessels (two blue glass plates and salt-cellars, a drinking vessel of cut glass, unguentaria), a bronze statue of Pan, a piece of furniture, fragments of silverware, a cast gold medallion, hundreds of golden beads, pendants and buttons (rosettes), gems, lots of colored and precious stones, paste, carneol, jet and glass beads, remains of a wooden sarcophagus, put together with bronze nails and iron bands (fragments of silver belonging to the legs of a burial bed), ceramic bowls covered with red slip, 63 gold and silver coins {...]' Lomtatidze/Tsitsishvili 1951; Tsitsishvili 1954; Apakidze et al. 1955, 6 f.; Kapanadze, B. 1955, 82 f.; Apakidze 1963, 107.
Associated features

Burial dated from the last quarter of the 1st century A.D.
Recovery method

Excavation
Site class

Urban

Context

Burial

Depositional context

Tomb

Objects belonging to this hoard

Vessel
15 glass vessels and more. 'Two blue glass plates and salt-cellars, a drinking vessel of cut glass, unguentaria' See Iberia and Rome, 2004, p. 264.

Statuette
Bronze statuette of Pan

Piece of furniture

Silverware
Fragments of silverware

Gold medallion
A cast gold medallion

Golden beads and pendants and buttons (rosettes)
Hundreds of golden beads and pendants and buttons (rosettes)

Gems, lots of colored and precious stones, paste, carneol, jet and glass beads

Sarcophagus
Remains of a wooden sarcophagus

References

Reference

Furtwängler, A. E., Gagoshidze, I. and Löhr, H. - 2008 - Iberia and Rome : the excavations of the palace at Dedoplis Gora and the Roman influence in the Caucasian kingdom of Iberia

Ref

p. 243, Classical and Hellenistic coins, no. 27; Atabanus II, no. 3; p. 244, Sinatruces, no. 5; Phraates III , no. 3; Mithridates III , no. 1; p. 245, Orodes II, no. 19; p. 246, Phraates IV, no. 9; p. 250, Tiberius, no. 3; Nero, no. 3.

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Objects belonging to this hoard

Vessel
15 glass vessels and more. 'Two blue glass plates and salt-cellars, a drinking vessel of cut glass, unguentaria' See Iberia and Rome, 2004, p. 264.

Statuette
Bronze statuette of Pan

Piece of furniture

Silverware
Fragments of silverware

Gold medallion
A cast gold medallion

Golden beads and pendants and buttons (rosettes)
Hundreds of golden beads and pendants and buttons (rosettes)

Gems, lots of colored and precious stones, paste, carneol, jet and glass beads

Sarcophagus
Remains of a wooden sarcophagus

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