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CAMARINA

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Location

City

Scoglitti

County

Ragusa

Region

Sicilia

Country

Italy

Ancient place

Camarina

Lat/Long/Alt

36.8725 / 14.4456 / 13.51 view

Location details

Centred on village/city

Information

ID

5399

Permalink

https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5399

Hoard name

CAMARINA

Alternative names

KAMARINA; CIARAMIRARO DI CAMARINA

Data type

Hoard

Date of discovery (from)

1991

(to)

1998

Total number of coins

5922

Summary

During a violent storm in 1991, coins and many other artefacts dating from the Roman Empire, such as pottery vessels and bronze weights, were washed up from the seabed a short distance from the ancient city of Camarina on the most south-easterly point of Sicily. Among issuers: Gallienus, Claudius II, Quintillus, Victorinus, Tetricus I, Tetricus II.

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Objects
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Credit

Discovery method

Other chance find
Land Use

Marine
Disposition

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Camarina, Italy
Finder(s)

Diver
Closing reign (earliest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (earliest)

271
Closing reign (latest)

Tetricus I
Terminal year (latest)

274
Opening year (earliest)

260
Opening year (latest)

268
Coin-level data

Available to enter

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Numismatic rating

Poor
Context rating

Poor
Findspot rating

Poor

Site class

Urban

Context

Uncertain

Containers belonging to this hoard

Untitled

References

Reference (string)

http://www.glyptoteket.com/whats-on/calendar/shipwreck-the-coin-hoard-of-the-six-emperors

Reference

di Stefano, G. - 1999 - Pesi e monete nel padiglione subacqueo del Museo

Ref

269

Reference

Crisafulli C. - 2008 - Economia monetaria in Italia alla vigilia del IV sec. d.C. Il ruolo dell'antoniniano e dei suoi omologhi gallici alla luce delle fonti numismatiche e storico-letterarie

Ref

564

Reference

Guzzetta, G. - 2012 - Il "tesoro dei sei imperatori": Monete e storia

Reference

Manganaro, G. - 2013 - Tesaurizzazione «povera» nella Sicilia imperiale e tardoantica

Ref

279

Reference

Vicari Sottosanti, M. A. - 2013 - Second and Third Century Roman Coin Hoards in the ‘P. Orsi’ Museum in Syracuse

Ref

929

Reference

Guzzetta, G. - 2014 - Il tesoro dei sei imperatori dalla baia di Camarina. 4472 antoniani da Gallieno a Probo

Reference

Manganaro, G. - 2015 - Tra Gallieno et il 'regnum Galliarum': 'radiati gallici anomalii in Sicilia nel III-IV secolo AD

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357

Reference

Puglisi, M. - 2020 - An overview on hoarding in Roman Sicily and the evidence of a new imperial hoard from Tyndaris

Ref

392-393, 420 no. 29RG

Updated by C. Gazdac (June 2019, Apr. 2022). Updated by L. Di Masi (April 2022)